Quotes by Benjamin Tucker

Benjamin Tucker

American anarchist and socialist

Lived from: 1854 - 1939

Born: 17 april 1854 Died: 22 june 1939

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  • Socialism, on the contrary, extends its function to the description of society as it should be, and the discovery of the means of making it what it should be.
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  • Such security is equal liberty. But it is not necessarily equality in the use of the earth.
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  • Taking this view of the matter, the Anarchists contend that defence is not an essential of the State, but that aggression is.
    Address to Unitarian Ministers
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  • The Anarchists answer that the abolition of the State will leave in existence a defensive association, resting no longer on a compulsory but on a voluntary basis, which will restrain invaders by any means that may prove necessary.
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  • The Anarchists believe in civil society; only they insist that the freedom of civil society shall be complete instead of partial.
    Individual Liberty
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  • The Anarchists most certainly believe in the Church; only they insist that all its work shall be purely voluntary, and that its discoveries and achievements, however beneficial, shall not be imposed upon the individual by authority.
    Individual Liberty
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  • The Anarchists never have claimed that liberty will bring perfection; they simply say that its results are vastly preferable to those that follow authority.
    Individual Liberty Voluntary Cooperation a Remedy
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  • The claim of the State Socialists, however, that this right would not be exercised in matters pertaining to the individual in the more intimate and private relations of his life is not borne out by the history of governments.
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  • The exercise of authority over the same area by two States is a contradiction.
    Address to Unitarian Ministers
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  • The moment that justice must be paid for by the victim of injustice it becomes itself injustice.
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  • The right of such control is already admitted by the State Socialists, though they maintain that, as a matter of fact, the individual would be allowed a much larger liberty than he now enjoys.
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  • The shortest way to change a radical into a conservative, a liberal into a tyrant, a man into a beast, is to give him power over his fellows.
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  • The two principles referred to are Authority and Liberty, and the names of the two schools of Socialistic thought which fully and unreservedly represent one or the other of them are, respectively, State Socialism and Anarchism.
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  • Therefore coercion of the non-invasive, when justifiable at all, is to be justified on the ground that it secures, not a minimum of ' invasion, but a minimum of pain.
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  • This brings us to Anarchism, which may be described as the doctrine that all the affairs of men should be managed by individuals or voluntary associations, and that the State should be abolished.
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  • To force a man to pay for the violation of his own liberty is indeed an addition of insult to injury.
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  • We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them.
    Address before Unitarian Ministers Institute, Salem, Mass., 14 October 1890
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