Albert Jay Nock Quote on State and Monopoly of Crime

„As Dr. Sigmund Freud has observed, it can not even be said that the State has ever shown any disposition to suppress crime, but only to safeguard its own monopoly of crime.“

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Albert Jay Nock was an American libertarian author, editor, educational theorist, Georgist, and social critic.

This quote questions the role of the state regarding crime and power control from a social critical perspective.


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Albert Jay Nock quote about the state's monopoly on 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.

Albert Jay Nock quote about the relationship between the state and crimeCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"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 Nock
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Albert Jay Nock quote about state power and the importance of limiting government strengthCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"If you do not want the State to act like a criminal, you must disarm it as you would a criminal; you must keep it weak. The State will always be criminal in proportion to its strength; a weak State will always be as criminal as it can be, or dare be, but if it is kept down to the proper limit of weakness - which, by the way, is a vast deal lower limit than people are led to believe - its criminality may be safely got on with." Albert Jay Nock
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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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Ayn Rand quote about government, crime, and the creation of lawsCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws." Ayn Rand
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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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Albert Jay Nock quote about the State and professional criminalsCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Taking the State wherever found, striking into its history at any point, one sees no way to differentiate the activities of its founders, administrators and beneficiaries from those of a professional-criminal class." Albert Jay Nock
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