Whoso knows what these two schools want and how they propose to get it understands the Socialistic movement.
BENJAMIN TUCKERWe are here, on earth. Not one of us has any right to the earth.
More Benjamin Tucker Quotes
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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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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 ….
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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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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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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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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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For, just as it has been said that there is no half-way house between Rome and Reason, so it may be said that there is no half-way house between State Socialism and Anarchism.
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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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We are here, on earth. Not one of us has any right to the earth.
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The State is said by some to be a necessary evil; it must be made unnecessary.
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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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Such security is equal liberty. But it is not necessarily equality in the use of the earth.
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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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It is neither more nor less than a paper representative of the bayonet, the bully, and the bullet.
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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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