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Once for all, then, we are not opposed to the punishment of thieves and murderers; we are opposed to their manufacture.
Individual Liberty (1926)
Passive resistance and boycotting are now prominent features of every great national movement.
Individual Liberty (1926)
If the individual has a right to govern himself, all external government is tyranny. Hence the necessity of abolishing the State.
State Socialism and Anarchism: How Far They Agree, and Wherin They Differ (1888)
I insist that there is nothing sacred in the life of an invader, and there is no valid principle of human society that forbids the invaded to protect themselves in whatever way they can.
Individual Liberty (1926)
Aggression is simply another name for government. Aggression, invasion, government, are interconvertible terms. The essence of government is control, or the attempt to control.
The Relation of the State to the Individual (1890)
Where crime exists, force must exist to repress it. Who denies it? Certainly not Liberty; certainly not the Anarchists.
Individual Liberty (1926)
This distinction between invasion and resistance, between government and defence, is vital.
The Relation of the State to the Individual (1890)
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.
Individual Liberty (1926)
Anarchism, in dealing with this subject, has found it necessary, first of all, to define its terms. Popular conceptions of the terminology of politics are incompatible with the rigorous exactness required in scientific investigation.
The Relation of the State to the Individual (1890)
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.
State Socialism and Anarchism: How Far They Agree, and Wherin They Differ (1888)
I will simply call attention to the fact that it is an ideal utterly inconsistent with that of those Communists who falsely call themselves Anarchists while at the same time advocating a regime of Archism fully as despotic as that of the State Socialists themselves.
State Socialism and Anarchism: How Far They Agree, and Wherin They Differ (1888)
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.
State Socialism and Anarchism: How Far They Agree, and Wherin They Differ (1888)
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.
State Socialism and Anarchism: How Far They Agree, and Wherin They Differ (1888)
On the contrary, we are the sternest enemies of invasion of person and property, and, although chiefly busy in destroying the causes thereof, have no scruples against such heroic treatment of its immediate manifestations as circumstances and wisdom may dictate.
Individual Liberty (1926)
The Anarchists most certainly believe in the Church; only they insist that all its work shall be purely voluntary, and that its discoveries and achievements, however beneficial, shall not be imposed upon the individual by authority.
Individual Liberty (1926)