Benjamin Tucker on genocide
Benjamin Tucker64 quotes“Commanded love of all men indiscriminately is an obliteration of distinction between love and hate, and therefore is not love at all.”
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And capital punishment, however ineffective it may be and through whatever ignorance it may be resorted to, is a strictly defensive act, – at least in theory.
Benjamin TuckerBenjamin Tucker Is not the very beginning of privilege, monopoly and industrial slavery this erecting of the ballot-box above the individual?
Benjamin TuckerBenjamin Tucker The cost of justice can be justly paid only by the invader.
Benjamin TuckerBenjamin Tucker Man’s only right to land is his might over it. If his neighbor is mightier than he and takes the land from him, then the land is his neighbor’s, until the latter is dispossessed by one mightier still.
Benjamin TuckerBenjamin Tucker An Anarchist is anyone who denies the necessity and legitimacy of government; the question of his methods of attacking it is foreign to the definition.
Benjamin TuckerBenjamin Tucker Socialism, on the contrary, extends its function to the description of society as it should be, and the discovery of the means of making it what it should be.
Benjamin TuckerBenjamin Tucker 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.
Benjamin TuckerBenjamin Tucker As a choice of blessings, liberty is the greater; as a choice of evils, liberty is the smaller. Then liberty always says the Anarchist. No use of force except against the invader.
Benjamin TuckerBenjamin Tucker The exercise of authority over the same area by two States is a contradiction.
Benjamin TuckerBenjamin Tucker The student of Liberty must constantly endeavor to disassociate his imagination from sanguinary dramas of assassination and revolt.
Benjamin TuckerBenjamin Tucker To force a man to pay for the violation of his own liberty is indeed an addition of insult to injury.
Benjamin TuckerBenjamin Tucker Aggression is simply another name for government. Aggression, invasion, government, are interconvertible terms. The essence of government is control, or the attempt to control.
Benjamin TuckerBenjamin Tucker But which is the State’s essential function, aggression or defence, few seem to know or care.
Benjamin TuckerBenjamin Tucker Peace and Liberty are companions. It is foolish in the extreme not only to resort to force before necessity compels, but especially to madly create the conditions that will lead to this necessity.
Benjamin TuckerBenjamin Tucker 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.
Benjamin TuckerBenjamin Tucker [T]he State . . . gives idle capital the power of increase, and, through interest, rent, profit, and taxes, robs industrious labor of its products.
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We were not realizing that, with just a machete, you can do a genocide.
Boutros Boutros-GhaliBoutros Boutros-Ghali I believe the only time when we can call for intervention is when there is an ongoing genocide.
Bianca JaggerBianca Jagger What was created by the era of the proper gentleman was excellent table manners and genocide over most of the surface of the planet.
Terence McKennaTerence McKenna So let us call genocide, genocide. Let us not minimize the deliberate murder of 1.5 million people.
Adam SchiffAdam Schiff Some argue that recognition of the genocide has become even more problematic now
Adam SchiffAdam Schiff Yet, history has shown that if material force can defeat some ideologies it can no longer obliterate a civilization without destabilizing the whole planet.
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