Albert Jay Nock Quotes

In proportion as you give the state power to do things for you, you give it power to do things to you.

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.

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.

There’s only one way to improve society. Present it with a single improved unit: yourself.