Top 25 Albert Jay Nock Quotes
#1. There are plenty of people out there judging us every day of our lives and for every move we make. The gods of guilt are many.You don't need to add to them
Michael
#2. Having an avatar doesn't give you an identity, and having a persona online doesn't make you a personality either.
Marilyn Manson
#3. In proportion as you give the state power to do things for you, you give it power to do things to you.
Albert Jay Nock
#4. Teaching English literature would have seemed to us like teaching a hungry man the way to his mouth when he had a feast before him. Almost
Albert Jay Nock
#5. Passing from the tyranny of Charles I to the tyranny of Cromwell is like taking a turn in a revolving door; the exertion merely puts you back where you started. If every jobholder in Washington were driven into the Potomac tonight, their places would be taken tomorrow by others precisely like them.
Albert Jay Nock
#6. Bruce Smith is a tender master of music, and beautiful lines, and complex thoughts, and fascinating wild personal and cultural references.
Gerald Stern
#7. When a beggar asks us for a quarter, our instinct is to say that the State has already confiscated our quarter for his benefit, and he should go to the State about it.
Albert Jay Nock
#8. Are you still thinking about kissing me?"
I tilt my head back against the pillow and look up at her. "I moved beyond the kiss. Marry me.
Colleen Hoover
#9. The competition of social power with State power is always disadvantaged, since the State can arrange the terms of competition to suit itself, even to the point of outlawing any exercise of social power whatever in the premises; in other words, giving itself a monopoly.
Albert Jay Nock
#10. A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning.
Chuck Noll
#11. I love cable, but not because you can show boobies and say the F-word. I love it because you have more time to think. That's the blessing of it.
Vince Gilligan
#12. The positive testimony of history is that the State invariably had its origin in conquest and confiscation. No primitive State known to history originated in any other manner.
Albert Jay Nock
#13. By the time we are women, fear is as familiar to us as air; it is our element. We live in it, we inhale it, we exhale it, and most of the time we do not even notice it.
Andrea Dworkin
#14. All the power [the State] has is what society gives it, plus what it confiscates from time to time on one pretext or another; there is no other source from which State power can be drawn. Therefore every assumption of State power, whether by gift or seizure, leaves society with so much less power.
Albert Jay Nock
#15. 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.
Albert Jay Nock
#17. Maybe it's a sick fantasy of mine, but I am really looking forward to a debate between a general and a deserter. Plus, I really want to hear President Bush have to say, 'Yes, General, No, General.'
Michael Moore
#18. A terrific, stimulating book ... Ramalingam clearly and engagingly shows how the use of complex adaptive systems thinking can significantly strengthen and enhance the impacts and effectiveness of global foreign aid.
Jerry Sabloff
#19. I wonder how many such men in America would know that Communism, the New Deal, Fascism, Nazism, are merely so-many trade-names for collectivist Statism, like the trade-names for tooth-pastes which are all exactly alike except for the flavouring.
Albert Jay Nock
#20. We used to sing the hymn "Take Time to Be Holy." But perhaps we should be singing, "Take time to be human." Or finally, "Take time." Sabbath is taking time ... time to be holy ... time to be human.
Walter Brueggemann
#21. What I wish is not that you pursue happiness, but that you actually find happiness. Is it possible to pursue happiness if the pursuit itself does not make you happy?
Deepak Malhotra
#22. Koh-i-noor in a limestone-quarry as an article of that character
Albert Jay Nock
#23. No, Lil," he tells me with a short laugh. "You're the opposite. You're my stability ... my home.
Krista Ritchie
#24. We have accepted the principle of democracy and we are committed to respect the popular verdict and the result of that national consultation.
Mahmoud Abbas
#25. American society is the only one which has passed directly from barbarism into decadence without once knowing civilisation.
Albert Jay Nock
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