Aggression is simply another name for government.
BENJAMIN TUCKER
BENJAMIN TUCKER
Benjamin Tucker on aggression
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If I can go through life free and rich, I shall not cry because my neighbor, equally free, is richer. Liberty will ultimately make all men rich; it will not make all men equally rich.
Benjamin TuckerBenjamin Tucker The shortest way to change a radical into a conservative, a liberal into a tyrant, a man into a beast, is to give him power over his fellows.
Benjamin TuckerBenjamin Tucker Give woman equality with man, by all means; but do it by taking power from man, not giving it to woman.
Benjamin TuckerBenjamin Tucker If the individual has a right to govern himself, all external government is tyranny. Hence the necessity of abolishing the State.
Benjamin TuckerBenjamin Tucker Anarchists are simply unterrified Jeffersonian Democrats.
Benjamin TuckerBenjamin Tucker It is not competition, but monopoly, that deprives labor of its product. Destroy the banking monopoly, establish freedom in finance, and down will go interest on money through the beneficent influence of competition.
Benjamin TuckerBenjamin Tucker There are some troubles from which mankind can never escape …. have never claimed that liberty will bring perfection; they simply say that its results are vastly preferable to those that follow from authority ….
Benjamin TuckerBenjamin Tucker The Anarchists are simply unterrified Jeffersonian Democrats. They believe that ‘the best government is that which governs least,’ and that which governs least is no government at all.
Benjamin TuckerBenjamin Tucker The two principles referred to are Authority and Liberty, and the names of the two schools of Socialistic thought which fully and unreservedly represent one or the other of them are, respectively, State Socialism and Anarchism.
Benjamin TuckerBenjamin Tucker It will probably surprise many who know nothing of Proudhon save his declaration that ‘property is robbery’ to learn that he was perhaps the most vigorous hater of Communism that ever lived on this planet.
Benjamin TuckerBenjamin Tucker 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.
Benjamin TuckerBenjamin Tucker The essence of government is control, or the attempt to control.
Benjamin TuckerBenjamin Tucker Thus, the same blow that strikes interest down will send wages up.
Benjamin TuckerBenjamin Tucker After the manner of the ordinary criminal, or by one man upon all other men, after the manner of an absolute monarch, or by all other men upon one man, after the manner of a modern democracy.
Benjamin TuckerBenjamin Tucker One thing, however, is sure, – that in all cases the effort should be to impose all the cost of repairing the wrong upon the doer of the wrong. This alone is real justice, and of course such justice is necessarily free.
Benjamin TuckerBenjamin Tucker Government is the assumption of authority over a given area and all within it, exercised generally for the double purpose of more complete oppression of its subjects and extension of its boundaries.
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Sailor MalanSailor Malan I’m tall and smart. If you’re aggressive and energetic it can be intimidating for people who aren’t very smart themselves.
Julia RobertsJulia Roberts Violence is the tool of the barbarian; aggression is the method of the primitive; bloodshed is the way of the savage; cruelty is the manner of the brutish! To be called as a ‘civilised,’ man must be peaceable!
Mehmet Murat IldanMehmet Murat Ildan If it’s a woman it’s caustic, if it’s a man it’s authority, If it’s a woman it’s too pushy, if it’s a man it’s aggressive in the best sense of the word.
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