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Let me feel how thy pulses beat.
— Thomas Middleton
Parents teach their children to look both ways when crossing the street. They tell them to look only one way when choosing a religion.
— Graham Kendall
The only thing that the psychically-human being can do to improve society is to present society with one improved unit.
— Albert J. Nock
Personal publicity of every kind is utterly distasteful to me, and I have made greater efforts to escape it than most people make to get it.
— Albert J. Nock
In proportion as you give the state power to do things for you, you give it power to do things to you.
— Albert Jay Nock
American society is the only one which has passed directly from barbarism into decadence without once knowing civilisation.
— Albert Jay Nock
In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.
— Richard Power
The simple truth is that our businessmen do not want a government that will let business alone. They want a government they can use.
— Albert J. Nock
Like Prince von Bismarck in diplomacy, I have no secrets.
— Albert J. Nock
I have often wondered why the sounds of the beating drums do not make the marching soldiers shoot their officers and go home.
— Albert J. Nock
My wife Margaret is the best thing that's ever happened to me.
— Ryne Sandberg
For the majority of people liberty means only the system and the administrators they are used to.
— Albert J. Nock
Man tends always to satisfy his needs and desires with the least possible exertion.
— Albert J. Nock
The mentality of an army on the march is merely so much delayed adolescence; it remains persistently, incorrigibly and notoriously infantile.
— Albert J. Nock
There's only one way to improve society. Present it with a single improved unit: yourself.
— Albert J. Nock
The mind is like the stomach. It is not how much you put into it that counts, but how much it digests.
— Albert J. Nock
Considered now as a possession, one may define culture as the residuum of a large body of useless knowledge that has been well and truly forgotten.
— Albert J. Nock
As sheer casual reading matter, I still find the English dictionary the most interesting book in our language.
— Albert J. Nock
Diligent as one must be in learning, one must be as diligent in forgetting; otherwise the process is one of pedantry, not culture.
— Albert J. Nock
The truth must dazzle gradually or every man be blind. Emily Dickinson
— Eugene H. Peterson
If all the Atheists & Agnostics left America, they'd lose 93% of The National Academy of Sciences & less than 1% of the prison population.
— Ricky Gervais
It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its own.
— Albert J. Nock
When we speak freely, let us speak plainly, for plain speech is wholesome; especially, plain speech about public affairs and public men.
— Albert J. Nock
As far as I know, I have no pride of opinion.
— Albert J. Nock
Useless knowledge can be made directly contributory to a force of sound and disinterested public opinion.
— Albert J. Nock
Coincidences are God's way of getting our attention.
— Frederick Buechner
Koh-i-noor in a limestone-quarry as an article of that character
— Albert Jay Nock
I love you, " he murmured into my hair. "I'm happier right now than I remember being.
— Becca Fitzpatrick
He was the one she was doing all this for, but sometimes she missed him so much it felt like she swallowed broken glass.
— Cassandra Clare
The mind is like the stomach. It not how much you put into it, but how much it digests.
— Albert J. Nock
Teaching English literature would have seemed to us like teaching a hungry man the way to his mouth when he had a feast before him. Almost
— Albert Jay Nock
The primary reason for a tariff is that it enables the exploitation of the domestic consumer by a process indistinguishable from sheer robbery.
— Albert J. Nock
