Crime Quote by Murray N. Rothbard

“We may test the hypothesis that the State is largely interested in protecting itself rather than its subjects by asking: which category of crimes…

— Murray N. Rothbard

[W]hich category of crimes does the State pursue and punish most intensely? [T]hose against private citizens or those against itself? The gravest crimes in…

— Murray Rothbard

The State claims and exercises the monopoly of crime. It forbids private murder, but itself organizes murder on a colossal scale. It punishes private…

— Albert J. Nock

“There is not the slightest hope that the authorities who, for a number of years, have permitted the violation of the law, will be…

— Various

“The state, rather, is a parasitic institution that lives off the wealth of its subjects, concealing its anti-social, predatory nature beneath a public-interest veneer.”

— Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr

“In other words, they appeal to the state for protection, but the state is precisely that from which they require protection. To be protected…

— Judith Butler

“And, indeed, what is the State anyway but organized banditry? What is taxation but theft on a gigantic, unchecked, scale? What is war but…

— Murray N. Rothbard

“What shall light us to murder & defile if by some chance the Laws of the State happen to get turned off?”

— Kenneth Patchen

“The State is not the hope of the world; it is an institution grounded in the threat of violence, whether via capital punishments or…

— Douglas Wilson

The State lives by its very existence on the two-fold and pervasive employment of aggressive violence against the very liberty and property of individuals…

— Murray Rothbard

Our main conclusions about the state are that a minimal state, limited, to the narrow functions of protection against force, theft, fraud, enforcement of…

— Robert Nozick

“In order for punishment not to be, in every instance, an act of violence of one or many against a private citizen, it must…

— Steven Briggs