Benjamin Tucker Quotes & Sayings
33 most famous Benjamin Tucker quotes and sayings (activist). These are the first 10 quotes we have.
“But this is not to say that the society which inflicts capital punishment commits murder.”
“Commanded love of all men indiscriminately is an obliteration of distinction between love and hate, and therefore is not love at all.”
“Almost the only persons who may be said to comprehend even approximately the significance, principles, and purposes of Socialism are the chief leaders of the extreme wings of the Socialistic forces, and perhaps a few of the money kings themselves.”
“The Anarchists answer that the abolition of the State will leave in existence a defensive association, resting no longer on a compulsory but on a voluntary basis, which will restrain invaders by any means that may prove necessary.”
“To force a man to pay for the violation of his own liberty is indeed an addition of insult to injury.”
“For, just as it has been said that there is no half-way house between Rome and Reason, so it may be said that there is no half-way house between State Socialism and Anarchism.”
“And this is the Anarchistic definition of the State: the embodiment of the principle of invasion in an individual, or a band of individuals, assuming to act as representatives or masters of the entire people within a given area.”
“First, then, State Socialism, which may be described as the doctrine that all the affairs of men should be managed by the government, regardless of individual choice.”
“I have also seen it stated that Capital punishment is murder in its worst form. I should like to know upon what principle of human society these assertions are based and justified.”
“The moment that justice must be paid for by the victim of injustice it becomes itself injustice.”
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