Benjamin Tucker Quotes

If the individual has a right to govern himself, all external government is tyranny. Hence the necessity of abolishing the State.

Benjamin Tucker

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• Some on the Left can be very selective about the kinds of violence they oppose. For some of them, gun violence is a crime to be decried - unless it is committed by an 'aggrieved' victim against what they consider a corrupt institution.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Violence
  • Gun
  • Corrupt

• I endeavour to read more, be more informed on gay rights. Whatever floats your boat is my outlook. It's hard enough to be happy without having legislation against you, too.

  

  Rachel Shelley
  • Happy
  • Gay
  • Boat

• I loved 'Dirty Sexy Money.' That didn't have a long enough shelf life. I would've liked to explore that character and play with that cast longer. That was a lot of fun to shoot.

  

  Zoe McLellan
  • Life
  • Long
  • Money

• As soon as we can wrest from Nature the secret of the internal structure of the compounds produced by her, chemical science can then even surpass Nature by producing compounds as variations of the natural ones, which the living cell is unable to construct.

  

  Otto Wallach
  • Nature
  • Science
  • Living

• I adore Bette Davis and Vivien Leigh, but more because they were good actresses. That's what makes me interested in them, that they didn't present themselves as idols; they were just doing their jobs.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • Good
  • Me
  • Present

• It's a constant challenge trying to find balance between styling, designing and being a mom.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Trying
  • Mom
  • Challenge

• I'm in a really nice position because I can be selective with the modeling jobs that I do and just work with brands I'm passionate about. The two worlds balance out nicely for me because modeling is so social - it has travel, you meet people, it's extroverted. Whereas painting is very solitary - when I paint, I'm kind of in my own world.

  

  Tali Lennox
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• What I'm trying to do is get a change in the mindset so people move from a level of mere tolerance to total acceptance and eventually to celebrate diversity. If you feel comfortable with one another, it doesn't matter whether we live in which neighbourhood but we can interact with one another freely. It's a mindset.

  

  Najib Razak
  • People
  • Live
  • Trying

• I'm no hardened criminal who the authorities need to hunt.

  

  Vijay Mallya
  • Need
  • Criminal
  • Hunt

• I am not hungry for roles on TV or in films. I am happy being a social media sensation.

  

  Qandeel Baloch
  • Happy
  • Media
  • Social Media

• Isn't it amazing how much stuff we get done the day before vacation?

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Done
  • Day
  • Amazing

• I can understand the natural anxiety of readers when waiting for another installment of a favourite series, but I think it is much more important to get a book right than it is to have it appear on time.

  

  Garth Nix
  • Time
  • Important
  • Book

• I've outlasted many marriages at Random House.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • House
  • Random
  • Many

• You had better love the music... because sometimes the music doesn't love you.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Music
  • Sometimes
  • Better

• When the founder of World Energy Solutions Inc. assembled his first board in 2000, it consisted of nine investors and friends. The group met quarterly, generally affirming Domaleski's every action. But the Worcester, Mass., company, which auctions electricity and gas credits, lacked customers and financing. It needed more from its board to survive.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • World
  • Friends
  • Energy

• Biotechnology is a worry. What if they take genetic material from wet noodles and blowfish and splice it into politician chromosomes and create a Clinton administration?

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Worry

• To know nothing is nothing, not to want to know anything likewise, but to be beyond knowing anything, to know you are beyond knowing anything, that is when peace enters in, to the soul of the incurious seeker.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Soul
  • Peace

• Going home, spending time with the family, I feel they're my friends as well, all of them. I look forward to meeting any one of them for a coffee, and when we all get together, I just love it.

  

  Domhnall Gleeson
  • Time
  • Family
  • Home

• Onstage or in films, you do affect peoples' lives, and sometimes that's very gratifying. But still, there's this little voice that says you should be doing something that matters.

  

  Blythe Danner

• There’s always been a need for horror fiction, though - ghost stories have been a staple of every human society since the beginning of recorded literature - and while commercially the field may have its ups and downs, it will never go away. Hell, look at the Bible: gods, devils, ghosts, witches, giants, resurrections. That’s one big horror story. And it’s the most popular book on the planet.

  

  Bentley Little
  • Book
  • Human Society
  • Ghost Stories

• I want to create the largest archive of great God debates in existence: a Web site that becomes a great resource for both Christians and atheists.

  

  Dinesh D'Souza
  • Great
  • God

• Conservatives in general, and even so called Tea Party conservatives, are not against transportation spending. Indeed, interstate commerce is one purpose of interstate highways and byways, and is one of the things the federal government is actually supposed to spend our tax dollars on. What conservatives are opposed to is needless and excessive spending, pork-barrel spending, deficit spending, spending to pick winners and losers among American individuals and corporations, and spending to promote the social and economic whims of the Washington few.

  

  Barry Loudermilk
  • Government
  • Tax
  • Corporations

• If the individual has a right to govern himself, all external government is tyranny. Hence the necessity of abolishing the State.

  

  Benjamin Tucker