Albert J. Nock Quotes

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

There were also very great robberies and murder of our principal men. This was done in pretense indeed for the public welfare, but in reality for the hopes of gain to themselves

Now as through this world I ramble, I see lots of funny men, Some rob you with a six gun, And some with a fountain pen.

Conquest has made me what I am, only conquest can maintain me.

The first goal of the technostructure is its own security.

Some men rob you with a six-gun -- others rob you with a fountain pen.

To face the realities of our lives is not a reason for despair-despair is a tool of your enemies. Facing the realities of our lives gives us motivation for action. For you are not powerless... You know why the hard questions must be asked. It is not altruism, it is self-preservation-survival.

I have also been touched by the dark side of power and leadership.

If you only notice human proceedings, you may observe that all who attain great power and riches, make use of either force or fraud; and what they have acquired either by deceit or violence, in order to conceal the disgraceful methods of attainment, they endeavor to sanctify with the false title of honest gains.

If you had enough money, you could hardly commit crimes at all. You just perpetrated amusing little peccadilloes.

They say that patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings steal a little and they throw you in jail. Steal a lot and then they make you king.

Abuse of power comes as no surprise

Yahya Khan wasn't interested in the government of the country, he was interested in power for its own sake and nothing else.

Luckily, I's learned at an early age that self-preservation was the only way to survive with your soul intact.

Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.

When plunder becomes a way of life, men create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.

A leech who, having penetrated the shell of a turtle only to find that the creature has long been dead, deems it expedient to form a new attachment to a fresh turtle.

The weak are meat the strong do eat.

Worry about staying alive first. Then worry about how you're going to live.

tyranny and injustice always produce cunning and falsehood.

Any civilized administration, however organized, prefers its own good to that of the people.

There are some people who imagine that they can disarm their enemy by complacent flattery. They are wrong. The world has always belonged to the stronger and will belong to them for many years to come. Men only respect those who make themselves respected. Whoever becomes a lamb will find a wolf to eat him.

The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.

We are all mortals, and each is for himself.

There are always people willing to commit unspeakable human atrocity in exchange for a little power and privilege.