It is because peaceful agitation and passive resistance are effective that I uphold them, and it is because force strengthens tyranny that I condemn it. War and Authority are companions.
BENJAMIN TUCKERThe 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.
More Benjamin Tucker Quotes
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In times past…it was my habit to talk glibly of the right of man to land. It was a bad habit, and I long ago sloughed it off.
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Aggression is simply another name for government. Aggression, invasion, government, are interconvertible terms. The essence of government is control, or the attempt to control.
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This, then, is the Anarchistic definition of government: the subjection of the non-invasive individual to an external will.
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We are here to let in the light of Liberty upon political superstition.
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The moment that justice must be paid for by the victim of injustice it becomes itself injustice.
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The State is said by some to be a necessary evil; it must be made unnecessary.
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He who attempts to control another is a governor, an aggressor, an invader; and the nature of such invasion is not changed, whether it is made by one man upon another man … or by all other men upon one man, after the manner of a modern democracy.
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Aggression is simply another name for government.
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Anarchism is for liberty, and neither for nor against anything else. Anarchy is the mother of co-operation, yes, just as liberty is the mother of order; but, as a matter of definition, liberty is not order nor is Anarchism co-operation.
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War and Authority are companions; Peace and Liberty are companions.
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The exercise of authority over the same area by two States is a contradiction.
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The main question … is not what motive inspired the law, but what it will be possible for men of bad motive to do with the law.
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Whoso knows what these two schools want and how they propose to get it understands the Socialistic movement.
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Monopoly and privilege must be destroyed, opportunity afforded, and competition encouraged. This is Liberty’s work, and Down with Authority her war-cry.
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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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