The State always moves slowly and grudgingly towards any purpose that accrues to society's advantage, but moves rapidly … - Albert J. Nock

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Become detached from your ego, become detached from your possessions. Become simply detached from every possible source of attachment.

Albert J. Nock

The State always moves slowly and grudgingly towards any purpose that accrues to society's advantage, but moves rapidly and with alacrity towards one that accrues to its own advantage; nor does it ever move towards social purposes on its own initiative, but only under heavy pressure, while its motion towards anti-social purposes is self-sprung.

Doe, Initiative, Moving, Pressure, Self, State

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Like all predatory or parasitic institutions, the state's first instinct is that of self-preservati on. All its enterprises are directed first towards preserving its own life, and, second, towards increasing its own power and enlarging the scope of its own activity. For the sake of this it will, and regularly does, commit any crime which circumstances make expedient.

Doe, Parasitic, Predatory, Sake, Scope, Self

The question of who is right and who is wrong has seemed to me always too small to be worth a moment's thought, while the question of what is right and what is wrong has seemed all-important.

Important, Moments, Right, Seemed, Thought, Wrong

In proportion as you give the state power to do things for you, you give it power to do things to you.

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The State claims and exercises the monopoly of crime. It forbids private murder, but itself organizes murder on a colossal scale. It punishes private theft, but itself lays unscrupulous hands on anything it wants, whether the property of citizen or of alien.

Citizens, Claims, Crime, Exercise, Forbids, Hands

According to my observations, mankind are among the most easily tamable and domesticable of all creatures in the animal world. They are readily reducible to submission, so readily conditionable (to coin a word) as to exhibit an almost incredibly enduring patience under restraint and oppression of the most flagrant character. So far are they from displaying any overweening love of freedom that they show a singular contentment with a condition of servitorship, often showing a curious canine pride in it, and again often simply unaware that they are existing in that condition.

Animal, Character, Oppression, Overweening, Pride