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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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 Aggression is simply another name for government.
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.
Benjamin TuckerBenjamin Tucker 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.
Benjamin TuckerBenjamin Tucker But the apparent inconsistency vanishes when you read his book and find that by property he means simply legally privileged wealth or the power of usury, and not at all the possession by the labourer of his products.
Benjamin TuckerBenjamin Tucker 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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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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