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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.
— Benjamin Tucker
We are here to let in the light of Liberty upon political superstition.
— Benjamin Tucker
But which is the State's essential function, aggression or defence, few seem to know or care.
— Benjamin Tucker
Murder is an offensive act. The term cannot be applied legitimately to any defensive act.
— Benjamin Tucker
I just have beautiful memories of what has happened in my life.
— Persis Khambatta
Old persons are sometimes as unwilling to die as tired-out children are to say good night and go to bed.
— Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
If the individual has a right to govern himself, all external government is tyranny. Hence the necessity of abolishing the State.
— Benjamin Tucker
Aggression is simply another name for government.
— Benjamin Tucker
War and Authority are companions; Peace and Liberty are companions.
— Benjamin Tucker
Movie stars and singers never fully pass away because their images are replayed on film and recordings, over and over.
— Bill Kurtis
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 ...
— Benjamin Tucker
Is not the very beginning of privilege, monopoly and industrial slavery this erecting of the ballot-box above the individual?
— Benjamin Tucker
The government is a tyrant living by theft, and therefore has no business to engage in any business.
— Benjamin Tucker
To force a man to pay for the violation of his own liberty is indeed an addition of insult to injury.
— Benjamin Tucker
The student of Liberty must constantly endeavor to disassociate his imagination from sanguinary dramas of assassination and revolt.
— Benjamin Tucker
Thus, the same blow that strikes interest down will send wages up.
— Benjamin Tucker
The right of the majority is absolute.
— Benjamin Tucker
The moment that justice must be paid for by the victim of injustice it becomes itself injustice.
— Benjamin Tucker
When pain ends, gain ends too.
— Robert Browning
A good idea turns every cog in your mind, making you scared of bed in case the whole machine grinds to a halt.
— Trevor Baylis
Such security is equal liberty. But it is not necessarily equality in the use of the earth.
— Benjamin Tucker
If you keep your destiny in mind, every moment in life becomes an opportunity for moving closer to it.
— Arthur Golden
It's deeply humbling to realize that there is no such thing as a society with a purchase on truth.
— Andrew Solomon
I prayed a lot. That's all I had in the gym; that was the thing I could turn to.
— Dominique Moceanu
Laissez Faire was very good sauce for the goose, labor, but was very poor sauce for the gander, capital.
— Benjamin Tucker
The shortest way to change a radical into a conservative, a liberal into a tyrant, a man into a beast, is to give him power over his fellows.
— Benjamin Tucker
The essence of government is control, or the attempt to control.
— Benjamin Tucker
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[T]he State ... gives idle capital the power of increase, and, through interest, rent, profit, and taxes, robs industrious labor of its products.
— Benjamin Tucker
Anarchists are simply unterrified Jeffersonian Democrats.
— Benjamin Tucker
But this is not to say that the society which inflicts capital punishment commits murder.
— Benjamin Tucker
We are here, on earth. Not one of us has any right to the earth.
— Benjamin Tucker
The cost of justice can be justly paid only by the invader.
— Benjamin Tucker
This, then, is the Anarchistic definition of government: the subjection of the non-invasive individual to an external will ...
— Benjamin Tucker