Benjamin Tucker
Benjamin Tucker
Benjamin Ricketson Tuckerwas a proponent, in the 19th century, of American individualist anarchism, which he called "unterrified Jeffersonianism," and editor and publisher of the individualist anarchist periodical Liberty...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth17 April 1854
CityDartmout, MA
CountryUnited States of America
Benjamin Tucker quotes about
american-activist divisions evident fully positions prominent understand
That those prominent in the intermediate Socialistic divisions do not fully understand what they are about is evident from the positions they occupy.
society
But this is not to say that the society which inflicts capital punishment commits murder.
based capital human principle punishment seen society stated worst
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.
affairs american-activist doctrine men voluntary
This brings us to Anarchism, which may be described as the doctrine that all the affairs of men should be managed by individuals or voluntary associations, and that the State should be abolished.
american-activist forbids human insist invaded life principle sacred society themselves valid whatever
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.
government anarchy individual
If the individual has a right to govern himself, all external government is tyranny. Hence the necessity of abolishing the State.
anarchist democrat
Anarchists are simply unterrified Jeffersonian Democrats.
names government aggression
Aggression is simply another name for government.
war liberty authority
War and Authority are companions; Peace and Liberty are companions.
power men tyrants
The shortest way to change a radical into a conservative, a liberal into a tyrant, a man into a beast, is to give him power over his fellows.
men essence names
Aggression is simply another name for government. Aggression, invasion, government, are interconvertible terms. The essence of government is control, or the attempt to control. He who attempts to control another is a governor, an aggressor, an invader; and the nature of such invasion is not changed, whether it is made by one man upon another man, after the manner of the ordinary criminal, or by one man upon all other men, after the manner of an absolute monarch, or by all other men upon one man, after the manner of a modern democracy.
men insult-to-injury liberty
To force a man to pay for the violation of his own liberty is indeed an addition of insult to injury.
mother order liberty
Anarchism is for liberty, and neither for nor against anything else. Anarchy is the mother of co-operation, yes, just as liberty is the mother of order; but, as a matter of definition, liberty is not order nor is Anarchism co-operation. I define Anarchism as the belief in the greatest amount of liberty compatible with equality of liberty; or, in other words, as the belief in every liberty except the liberty to invade.
ideas world emergencies
The moment one abandons the idea that he was born to discover what is right and enforce it upon the rest of the world, he begins to feel an increasing disposition to let others alone and to refrain even from retaliation or resistance except in those emergencies which immediately and imperatively require it.