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Give woman equality with man, by all means; but do it by taking power from man, not giving it to woman.

Benjamin Tucker

Therefore coercion of the non-invasive, when justifiable at all, is to be justified on the ground that it secures, not a minimum of ‘ invasion, but a minimum of pain.
BENJAMIN TUCKER

Atheism Coercion Pain
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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Ago Long Men Past
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.
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Disoppessed Land Man Neighbour
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.
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Kings Leader Wings
I define Anarchism as the belief in the greatest amount of liberty compatible with equality of liberty; or, in other words, as the belief in every liberty except the liberty to invade.
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Amount Belief Compatible Liberty
This, then, is the Anarchistic definition of government: the subjection of the non-invasive individual to an external will.
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Anarchy Definitions Government
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.
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Absolute Manner Men Modern Monarch Ordinary
Anarchism may be described as the doctrine that all the affairs of men should be managed by individuals or voluntary associations, and that the State should be abolished….. Nor does the Anarchistic scheme furnish any code of morals to be imposed upon the individual. “
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Business Law Men Mind Own
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.
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Country Names School
Mind your own business” is its own moral law. Interference with another’s business is a crime and the only crime, and as such may properly be resisted.
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Business Interference Mind Resisted
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.
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Liberty May Men
In the matter of the maintenance and rearing of children the Anarchists would neither institute the communistic nursery which the State Socialists favor nor keep the communistic school system which now prevails.
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Children Maintenance School
Capital will be set free, business will flourish, new enterprises will start, labor will be in demand, and gradually the wages of labor will rise to a level with its product.
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Business Capital Demand Labor Product
Is not the very beginning of privilege, monopoly and industrial slavery this erecting of the ballot-box above the individual?
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Privilege Slavery Voting
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.
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Always Bless Choice Invade Liberty
But which is the State’s essential function, aggression or defence, few seem to know or care.
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Aquarium Care Essential
We are here, on earth. Not one of us has any right to the earth.
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Any Earth Right
The State is said by some to be a necessary evil; it must be made unnecessary.
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Anarchy Evil Unnecessary
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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Government Liberty Purpose
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.
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Passive Peaceful Resistance War
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.
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Book Mean
[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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Giving Increase States
The Anarchists never have claimed that liberty will bring perfection; they simply say that its results are vastly preferable to those that follow authority.
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Anarchist Liberty Perfection
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.
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Band People Principles
The essence of government is control, or the attempt to control.
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Essence Government Transcendentalism
The moment that justice must be paid for by the victim of injustice it becomes itself injustice.
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Justice Moments Victim
It is neither more nor less than a paper representative of the bayonet, the bully, and the bullet.
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Beyond Bullet More Representative

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