The exercise of authority over the same area by two States is a contradiction. Benjamin Tucker More Quotes by Benjamin Tucker More Quotes From Benjamin Tucker It is because peaceful agitation and passive resistance are effective that I uphold them, and it is because force strengthens tyranny that I condemn it. War and Authority are companions; Peace and Liberty are companions. It is foolish in the extreme not only to resort to force before necessity compels, but especially to madly create the conditions that will lead to this necessity. Benjamin Tucker passive-resistance peaceful war But which is the State's essential function, aggression or defence, few seem to know or care. Benjamin Tucker aquariums essentials care 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. Benjamin Tucker names two school 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. Benjamin Tucker answers may mean In the matter of the maintenance and rearing of children the Anarchists would neither institute the communistic nursery which the State Socialists favor nor keep the communistic school system which now prevails. Benjamin Tucker maintenance children school 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. Benjamin Tucker eugenics discovery mean Laissez Faire was very good sauce for the goose, labor, but was very poor sauce for the gander, capital. Benjamin Tucker laissez-faire sauce poor The student of Liberty must constantly endeavor to disassociate his imagination from sanguinary dramas of assassination and revolt. Benjamin Tucker liberty imagination drama Government is the assumption of authority over a given area and all within it, exercised generally for the double purpose of more complete oppression of its subjects and extension of its boundaries. Benjamin Tucker liberty government purpose Thus, the same blow that strikes interest down will send wages up. Benjamin Tucker strikes wages blow Commanded love of all men indiscriminately is an obliteration of distinction between love and hate, and therefore is not love at all. Benjamin Tucker genocide hate men 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. Benjamin Tucker punishment ignorance may Almost the only persons who may be said to comprehend even approximately the significance, principles, and purposes of Socialism are the chief leaders of the extreme wings of the Socialistic forces, and perhaps a few of the money kings themselves. Benjamin Tucker leader kings wings First, then, State Socialism, which may be described as the doctrine that all the affairs of men should be managed by the government, regardless of individual choice. Benjamin Tucker individual-choice swag men Murder is an offensive act. The term cannot be applied legitimately to any defensive act. Benjamin Tucker offensive murder term Such security is equal liberty. But it is not necessarily equality in the use of the earth. Benjamin Tucker equality liberty use 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. Benjamin Tucker atheism pain coercion 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. Benjamin Tucker band principles people Marx, as we have seen, solved it by declaring capital to be a different thing from product, and maintaining that it belonged to society and should be seized by society and employed for the benefit of all alike. Benjamin Tucker maintaining benefits different The makers of dictionaries are dependent upon specialists for their definitions. A specialist's definition may be true or it may be erroneous. But its truth cannot be increased or its error diminished by its acceptance by the lexicographer. Each definition must stand on its own merits. Benjamin Tucker lexicographer errors acceptance
