Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2017-09-26 Sep 26, 2017[T]he State's criminality is nothing new and nothing to be wondered at. It began when the first predatory group of men clustered together and formed the State, and it will continue as long as the State exists in the world, because the State is fundamentally an anti-social institution, fundamentally criminal. The idea that the State originated to serve any kind of social purpose is completely unhistorical. It originated in conquest and confiscation -- that is to say, in crime. It originated for the purpose of maintaining the division of society into an owning-and-exploiting class and a propertyless dependent class -- that is, for a criminal purpose. No State known to history originated in any other manner, or for any other purpose. Like all predatory or parasitic institutions, its first instinct is that of self-preservation. All its enterprises are directed first towards preserving its own life, and, second, towards increasing its own power and enlarging the scope of its own activity. For the sake of this it will, and regularly does, commit any crime which circumstances make expedient.~ Albert Jay Nock Sep 25, 2017[It is a basic principle of a tyrant] to unarm his people of weapons, money, and all means whereby they resist his power.~ Sir Walter RaleighIf an individual is born with the obligation to obey, who is born with the right to command?~ Tom G. PalmerUnlimited Power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it.~ William Pitt, Sr. Sep 22, 2017Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.~ Denis DiderotThe man who craves disciples and wants followers is always more or less of a charlatan. The man of genuine worth and insight wants to be himself; and he wants others to be themselves, also.~ Elbert HubbardAbsolute power turns its possessors not into a God but an anti-God. For God turned clay into men, while the absolute despot turns men into clay.~ Eric Hoffer Sep 21, 2017Governments do not govern, but merely control the machinery of government, being themselves controlled by the hidden hand.~ Benjamin DisraeliIt’s never more important to move slowly and carefully before granting the state new powers than in the wake of tragedies.~ Brian DohertyGreat nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery.~ Buckminster Fuller Sep 20, 2017An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.~ Thomas JeffersonThe love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.~ William HazlittTrue liberty cannot exist apart from the full rights of property, for property is the only crystallized form of free faculties...The whole meaning of socialism is a systematic glorification of force... No literary phrases about social organisms are potent enough to evaporate the individual, who is the prime, indispensable, irreducible element.~ Auberon Herbert Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print