It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its own.
Albert J. NockThe mind is like the stomach. It is not how much you put into it that counts, but how much it digests...
Albert J. NockAs sheer casual reading matter, I still find the English dictionary the most interesting book in our language.
Albert J. NockThe 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.
Albert J. NockAssuming that man has a distinct spiritual nature, a soul, why should it be thought unnatural that under appropriate conditions of maladjustment, his soul might die before his body does; or that his soul might die without his knowing it?
Albert J. NockIf you do not want the State to act like a criminal, you must disarm it as you would a criminal; you must keep it weak. The State will always be criminal in proportion to its strength; a weak State will always be as criminal as it can be, or dare be, but if it is kept down to the proper limit of weakness - which, by the way, is a vast deal lower limit than people are led to believe - its criminality may be safely got on with.
Albert J. Nock