76 Quotes by Benjamin Tucker

Commanded love of all men indiscriminately is an obliteration of distinction between love and hate, and therefore is not love at all.

But this is not to say that the society which inflicts capital punishment commits murder.

I have also seen it stated that Capital punishment is murder in its worst form. I should like to know upon what principle of human society these assertions are based and justified.

And capital punishment, however ineffective it may be and through whatever ignorance it may be resorted to, is a strictly defensive act, - at least in theory.

Capitalism is at least tolerable, which cannot be said of Socialism or Communism

Laissez Faire was very good sauce for the goose, labor, but was very poor sauce for the gander, capital.

The moment that justice must be paid for by the victim of injustice it becomes itself injustice.

And this is the Anarchistic definition of the State: the embodiment of the principle of invasion in an individual, or a band of individuals, assuming to act as representatives or masters of the entire people within a given area.

For, just as it has been said that there is no half-way house between Rome and Reason, so it may be said that there is no half-way house between State Socialism and Anarchism.