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.
BENJAMIN TUCKERTo force a man to pay for the violation of his own liberty is indeed an addition of insult to injury.
More Benjamin Tucker Quotes
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Such security is equal liberty. But it is not necessarily equality in the use of the earth.
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The essence of government is control, or the attempt to control.
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We are here, on earth. Not one of us has any right to the earth.
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Voting is merely a labor-saving device for ascertaining on which side force lies and bowing to the inevitable…
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It is neither more nor less than a paper representative of the bayonet, the bully, and the bullet.
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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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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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To force a man to pay for the violation of his own liberty is indeed an addition of insult to injury.
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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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Whoso knows what these two schools want and how they propose to get it understands the Socialistic movement.
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The student of Liberty must constantly endeavor to disassociate his imagination from sanguinary dramas of assassination and revolt.
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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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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.
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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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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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