Benjamin Tucker Quotes - Page 3

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• Almost the only persons who may be said to comprehend even approximately the significance, principles, and purposes of Socialism are the chief leaders of the extreme wings of the Socialistic forces, and perhaps a few of the money kings themselves.

  Benjamin Tucker

  Kings, Wings, Leader

  Benjamin Ricketson Tucker (1972). “State Socialism and Anarchism and Other Essays”, Ralph Myles Pub

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• The exercise of authority over the same area by two States is a contradiction.

  Benjamin Tucker

  Exercise, Two, Contradiction

  Benjamin Ricketson Tucker (1972). “Instead of a Book”

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• Such security is equal liberty. But it is not necessarily equality in the use of the earth.

  Benjamin Tucker

  Equality, Liberty, Use

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• Murder is an offensive act. The term cannot be applied legitimately to any defensive act.

  Benjamin Tucker

  Offensive, Murder, Term

  Benjamin Ricketson Tucker (1972). “Instead of a Book”

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• The makers of dictionaries are dependent upon specialists for their definitions. A specialist's definition may be true or it may be erroneous. But its truth cannot be increased or its error diminished by its acceptance by the lexicographer. Each definition must stand on its own merits.

  Benjamin Tucker

  Acceptance, Errors, Lexicographer

  Benjamin Ricketson Tucker (1972). “Instead of a Book”

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• But which is the State's essential function, aggression or defence, few seem to know or care.

  Benjamin Tucker

  Aquariums, Essentials, Care

  Benjamin Ricketson Tucker (1926). “Individual liberty: selections from the writings of Benjamin R. Tucker”

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• The student of Liberty must constantly endeavor to disassociate his imagination from sanguinary dramas of assassination and revolt.

  Benjamin Tucker

  Drama, Imagination, Liberty

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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.

  Benjamin Tucker

  People, Principles, Band

  Benjamin Ricketson Tucker (1893). “Instead of a Book”, Ayer Company Pub

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• And capital punishment, however ineffective it may be and through whatever ignorance it may be resorted to, is a strictly defensive act, - at least in theory.

  Benjamin Tucker

  Ignorance, Punishment, May

  "Anarchism and Capital Punishment" by Benjamin Tucker, 1926.

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• Therefore coercion of the non-invasive, when justifiable at all, is to be justified on the ground that it secures, not a minimum of ' invasion, but a minimum of pain.

  Benjamin Tucker

  Pain, Atheism, Coercion

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• Marx, as we have seen, solved it by declaring capital to be a different thing from product, and maintaining that it belonged to society and should be seized by society and employed for the benefit of all alike.

  Benjamin Tucker

  Different, Benefits, Maintaining

  Benjamin Ricketson Tucker (1893). “Instead of a Book”, Ayer Company Pub

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