Quotes by Albert J. Nock

Albert J. Nock

Above all things the mass-mind is most bitterly resentful of superiority. It will not tolerate the thought of an elite; and under a political system of universal suffrage, the mass-mind is enabled to make its antipathies prevail.

Mass

Mind

Political

Another strange notion pervading whole peoples is that the State has money of its own; and nowhere is this absurdity more firmly fixed than in America. The State has no money. It produces nothing. It existence is purely parasitic, maintained by taxation; that is to say, by forced levies on the production of others. ‘Government money,’ of which one hears so much nowadays, does not exist; there is no such thing.

America

Doe

Government

As far as I know, I have no pride of opinion.

Knows

Opinion

Pride

By consequence I hold that no one ever did, or can do, anything for “society.”… Comte invented the term altruism as an antonym for egoism, and it found its way at once into everyone’s mouth, although it is utterly devoid of meaning, since it points to nothing that ever existed in mankind; This hybrid or rather this degenerate form of hedonism served powerfully to invest collectivism’s principles with a specious moral sanction, and collectivists naturally made the most of it.

Mouths

Principles

Way

Concerning culture as a process, one would say that it means learning a great many things and then forgetting them; and the forgetting is as necessary as the learning.

Culture

Forget

Mean

Considered now as a possession, one may define culture as the residuum of a large body of useless knowledge that has been well and truly forgotten.

Body

Culture

Useless

Considering mankind’s indifference to freedom, their easy gullibility and their facile response to conditioning, one might very plausibly argue that collectivism is the political mode best suited to their disposition and their capacities. Under its regime, the citizen, like the soldier, is relieved of the burden of initiative and is divested of all responsibility, save for doing as he is told.

Political

Responsibility

Soldier

Driving jobholders out of office is like the old discredited policy of driving prostitutes out of town. Their places are immediately taken by others who are precisely like them.

Office

Taken

Towns

For the majority of people liberty means only the system and the administrators they are used to.

Liberty

Mean

People

I am said to be difficult of acquaintance, unwilling to meet any one half way, and showing a social manner which is easy, not diffident, but formal and unresponsive, tending constantly to hold people off.

Half

People

Way

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America

Benefits

Bismarck

Body

Can Do

Character

Citizens

Class

Coins

Common

Competition

Criminals

Culture

Desire

Diplomacy

Doe

Effort

Errors

Exercise

Fall

Forget

Giving

Goes On

Government

Half

Hands

Heritage

Home

Humans

Ideas

Important

Instinct

Justice

Knows

Libertarian

Liberty

Mass

May

Mean

Men

Mind

Moments

Money

Mouths

Needs

Noble

Office

One Way

Opinion

Order

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Quotes by Albert J. Nock

Albert J. Nock

Above all things the mass-mind is most bitterly resentful of superiority. It will not tolerate the thought of an elite; and under a political system of universal suffrage, the mass-mind is enabled to make its antipathies prevail.

As far as I know, I have no pride of opinion.

Concerning culture as a process, one would say that it means learning a great many things and then forgetting them; and the forgetting is as necessary as the learning.

Considered now as a possession, one may define culture as the residuum of a large body of useless knowledge that has been well and truly forgotten.

Driving jobholders out of office is like the old discredited policy of driving prostitutes out of town. Their places are immediately taken by others who are precisely like them.

For the majority of people liberty means only the system and the administrators they are used to.

I am said to be difficult of acquaintance, unwilling to meet any one half way, and showing a social manner which is easy, not diffident, but formal and unresponsive, tending constantly to hold people off.

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