Albert Jay Nock Quote on Wealth, State, and Privileges

„It is easier to seize wealth than to produce it, and as long as the State makes the seizure of wealth a matter of legalized privilege, so long will the squabble for that privilege go on.“

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

Albert Jay Nock criticizes state-sanctioned privileges in acquiring wealth and their impact on social conflicts.


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Albert Jay Nock quote about wealth, the state, and legalized privilege

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.

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"There are two methods, or means, and only two, whereby man's needs and desires can be satisfied. One is the production and exchange of wealth; this is the economic means. The other is the uncompensated appropriation of wealth produced by others; this is the political means." Albert Jay Nock
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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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