Albert Jay Nock Quote on the State and Society

„The State always moves slowly and grudgingly towards any purpose that accrues to society's advantage, but moves rapidly and with alacrity towards one that accrues to its own advantage; nor does it ever move towards social purposes on its own initiative, but only under heavy pressure, while its motion towards anti-social purposes is self-sprung.“

Albert Jay NockAlbert Jay Nock describes the state's sluggishness towards social benefit and quick pursuit of its own advantages.
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Albert Jay Nock was an American libertarian author, editor, educational theorist, Georgist, and social critic.

Albert Jay Nock critiques the state's self-interest and sluggishness regarding societal benefits in this quote.


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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.

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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Murray Rothbard quote about the State, liberty, happiness, and human progressCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Instead of a bumbling and inefficient tool of society, the radical [libertarian] sees the State itself, in its very nature, as coercive, exploitative, parasitic, and hence profoundly antisocial. The State is, and always has been, the great single enemy of the human race, its liberty, happiness, and progress." Murray Rothbard
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Quote graphic featuring Albert Jay Nock on the origin of the stateCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The idea that the State originated to serve any kind of social purpose is completely unhistorical. It originated in conquest and confiscation - that is to say, in crime. It originated for the purpose of maintaining the division of society into an owning-and-exploiting class and a propertyless dependent class - that is, for a criminal purpose." Albert Jay Nock
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Albert Jay Nock quote image about the State, society, and political perceptionCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Instead of recognizing the State as ‘the common enemy of all well-disposed, industrious and decent men,’ the run of mankind, with rare exceptions, regards it not only as a final and indispensable entity, but also as, in the main, beneficent. The mass-man, ignorant of its history, regards its character and intentions as social rather than anti-social; and in that faith he is willing to put at its disposal an indefinite credit of knavery, mendacity and chicane, upon which its administrators may draw at will." Albert Jay Nock
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Quotation by Franz Oppenheimer about the state's nature as a tool of social dominationCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The state is, by its very nature and essence, a social institution imposed by a victorious group of people on a defeated group of people for the sole purpose of regulating the rule of the former over the latter and securing it against internal uprisings and external attacks. And this rule has no other ultimate purpose than the economic exploitation of the defeated by the victors." Franz Oppenheimer
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