top of page
Quote_1.png
Benjamin Tucker

"Defence was an afterthought, prompted by necessity; and its introduction as a State function, though effected doubtless with a view to the strengthening of the State, was really and in principle the initiation of the State's destruction."

Standard 
 Customized
"Defence was an afterthought, prompted by necessity; and its introduction as a State function, though effected doubtless with a view to the strengthening of the State, was really and in principle the initiation of the State's destruction."

Exlpore more Destruction quotes

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"You should issue demerits for tree cutting or the destruction of humus."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"It sets its face rightfully against the doctrines of the Anarchist and the Communist, who seek to solve the social problems not by patient endeavor, but by brutal destruction."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"Free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don't attack each other. Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"I'm not concerned about weapons of mass destruction."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"The more we are consuming oil that either comes from places that are bent on our destruction or helping those who are... the more we are enabling those who are trying to kill us."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"Note the three most important Cabinet positions. Rice said that it was better to find the weapons of mass destruction than to see a mushroom cloud."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"Natural erosion had reduced the critical barrier islands in the Gulf, the result of the destruction of some 300,000 acres of wetlands. This amounted to 30 miles of marshlands."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"There is little doubt that Iran is on a mission to rebuild its nuclear weapons and use that capability to wreak havoc and destruction on Israel and others throughout the world."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"One way or the other, we are determined to deny Iraq the capacity to develop weapons of mass destruction and the missiles to deliver them. That is our bottom line."

Explore more quotes by Benjamin Tucker

Quote_1.png
Benjamin Tucker
"Commanded love of all men indiscriminately is an obliteration of distinction between love and hate, and therefore is not love at all."
Quote_1.png
Benjamin Tucker
"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."
Quote_1.png
Benjamin Tucker
"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."
Quote_1.png
Benjamin Tucker
"The cost of justice can be justly paid only by the invader."
Quote_1.png
Benjamin Tucker
"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."
Quote_1.png
Benjamin Tucker
"The moment that justice must be paid for by the victim of injustice it becomes itself injustice."
Quote_1.png
Benjamin Tucker
"The essence of government is control, or the attempt to control."
Quote_1.png
Benjamin Tucker
"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."
Quote_1.png
Benjamin Tucker
"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."
Quote_1.png
Benjamin Tucker
"Laissez Faire was very good sauce for the goose, labor, but was very poor sauce for the gander, capital."
bottom of page