Benjamin Tucker

Activist

American

1762 - 1829

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We are here, on earth. Not one of us has any right to the earth.
Benjamin Tucker
Such security is equal liberty. But it is not necessarily equality in the use of the earth.
Benjamin Tucker
The right of such control is already admitted by the State Socialists, though they maintain that, as a matter of fact, the individual would be allowed a much larger liberty than he now enjoys.
Benjamin Tucker
The moment that justice must be paid for by the victim of injustice it becomes itself injustice.
Benjamin Tucker
The cost of justice can be justly paid only by the invader.
Benjamin Tucker
One thing, however, is sure, - that in all cases the effort should be to impose all the cost of repairing the wrong upon the doer of the wrong. This alone is real justice, and of course such justice is necessarily free.
Benjamin Tucker
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
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
Laissez Faire was very good sauce for the goose, labor, but was very poor sauce for the gander, capital.
Benjamin Tucker
But this is not to say that the society which inflicts capital punishment commits murder.
Benjamin Tucker