Quote by Albert Jay Nock on State and Crime

„The State claims and exercises the monopoly of crime... It forbids private murder, but itself organizes murder on a colossal scale. It punishes private theft, but itself lays unscrupulous hands on anything it wants, whether the property of citizen or of alien.“

Albert Jay NockAlbert Jay Nock critiques the state's double standards in exercising violence and crime.
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Albert Jay Nock was an American libertarian author, editor, educational theorist, Georgist, and social critic.

Albert Jay Nock critiques the contradictions of state violence and power in the context of law and crime.


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Albert Jay Nock quote about the relationship between the state and crime

Albert Jay Nock (1870–1945) was a prominent American writer and social critic known for his libertarian views and critique of the state. He was also an editor and educational theorist and supported the economic philosophy of Georgism.

Murray Rothbard quote about state crimes, government power, and the punishment of offenses against the StateCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"[W]hich category of crimes does the State pursue and punish most intensely? [T]hose against private citizens or those against itself? The gravest crimes in the State's lexicon are almost invariably not invasions of private person or property, but dangers to its own contentment, for example, treason, desertion of a soldier to the enemy, failure to register for the draft, subversion and subversive conspiracy, assassination of rulers and such economic crimes against the State as counterfeiting its money or evasion of its income tax." Murray Rothbard
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Walter Lippmann quote about the absolute power and authority of the modern stateCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"A state is absolute in the sense which I have in mind when it claims the right to a monopoly of all the force within the community, to make war, to make peace, to conscript life, to tax, to establish and disestablish property, to define crime, to punish disobedience, to control education, to supervise the family, to regulate personal habits, and to censor opinions. The modern state claims all of these powers, and, in the matter of theory, there is no real difference in the size of the claim between communists, fascists, and Democrats." Walter Lippmann
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Quote by Albert Jay Nock about the State being anti-social and limiting individual rightsCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The State, both in its genesis and by its primary intention, is purely anti-social. It is not based on the idea of natural rights, but on the idea that the individual has no rights except those that the State may provisionally grant him. It has always made justice costly and difficult of access, and has invariably held itself above justice and common morality whenever it could advantage itself by so doing." Albert Jay Nock
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