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Benjamin Tucker Quotes

American - Activist | April 17, 1854 - June 22, 1939

Murder is an offensive act. The term cannot be applied legitimately to any defensive act.

Benjamin Tucker

Act Offensive Cannot Defensive Any

Socialism, on the contrary, extends its function to the description of society as it should be, and the discovery of the means of making it what it should be.

Benjamin Tucker

Socialism Society Discovery Function

Such security is equal liberty. But it is not necessarily equality in the use of the earth.

Benjamin Tucker

Equality Security Earth Liberty Use

The cost of justice can be justly paid only by the invader.

Benjamin Tucker

Justice Cost Paid Only Justly

The exercise of authority over the same area by two States is a contradiction.

Benjamin Tucker

Exercise Authority Two Same Over

The moment that justice must be paid for by the victim of injustice it becomes itself injustice.

Benjamin Tucker

Justice Moment Injustice Victim Paid

The right of such control is already admitted by the State Socialists, though they maintain that, as a matter of fact, the individual would be allowed a much larger liberty than he now enjoys.

Benjamin Tucker

Control Liberty Now Matter Right He

Therefore coercion of the non-invasive, when justifiable at all, is to be justified on the ground that it secures, not a minimum of ' invasion, but a minimum of pain.

Benjamin Tucker

Pain Ground Justified Invasion

We are here, on earth. Not one of us has any right to the earth.

Benjamin Tucker

Earth Right Here Us Any

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