Benjamin Tucker Quotes

• We are here, on earth. Not one of us has any right to the earth.

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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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• This brings us to Anarchism, which 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.

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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.

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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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• The right of such control is already admitted by the State Socialists, though they maintain that, as a matter of fact, the individual would be allowed a much larger liberty than he now enjoys.

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

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• The cost of justice can be justly paid only by the invader.

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• The claim of the State Socialists, however, that this right would not be exercised in matters pertaining to the individual in the more intimate and private relations of his life is not borne out by the history of gover.

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• The Anarchists answer that the abolition of the State will leave in existence a defensive association, resting no longer on a compulsory but on a voluntary basis, which will restrain invaders by any means that may prove necessary.

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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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• Socialism, on the contrary, extends its function to the description of society as it should be, and the discovery of the means of making it what it should be.

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• 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.

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

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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.

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• Laissez Faire was very good sauce for the goose, labor, but was very poor sauce for the gander, capital.

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• In the matter of the maintenance and rearing of children the Anarchists would neither institute the communistic nursery which the State Socialists favor nor keep the communistic school system which now prevails.

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• I insist that there is nothing sacred in the life of an invader, and there is no valid principle of human society that forbids the invaded to protect themselves in whatever way they can.

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• I have also seen it stated that Capital punishment is murder in its worst form. I should like to know upon what principle of human society these assertions are based and justified.

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Benjamin Tucker (31)

Birth:	17th April, 1854
Death:	22nd June, 1939
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Activist, Editor, Publisher, Writer

About

Benjamin Ricketson Tucker was a proponent, in the 19th century, of American individualist anarchism, which he called "unterrified Jeffersonianism," and editor and publisher of the individualist anarchist periodical Liberty.

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