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Top 10 Albert Jay Nock Quotes (2025 Update)

Albert Jay Nock Quote: “State power has an unbroken record of inability to do anything efficiently, economically, disinterestedly or honestly; yet when the slightest dissatisfaction arises over any exercise of social power, the aid of the agent least qualified to give aid is immediately called for.”

1. “State power has an unbroken record of inability to do anything efficiently, economically, disinterestedly or honestly; yet when the slightest dissatisfaction arises over any exercise of social power, the aid of the agent least qualified to give aid is immediately called for.”

— Albert Jay Nock

Albert Jay Nock Quote: “Teaching English literature would have seemed to us like teaching a hungry man the way to his mouth when he had a feast before him. Almost.”

2. “Teaching English literature would have seemed to us like teaching a hungry man the way to his mouth when he had a feast before him. Almost.”

— Albert Jay Nock

Albert Jay Nock Quote: “Any expectation of an essential change of regime through a change of party-administration is illusory.”

3. “Any expectation of an essential change of regime through a change of party-administration is illusory.”

— Albert Jay Nock

Albert Jay Nock Quote: “American society is the only one which has passed directly from barbarism into decadence without once knowing civilisation.”

4. “American society is the only one which has passed directly from barbarism into decadence without once knowing civilisation.”

— Albert Jay Nock

Albert Jay Nock Quote: “As I understand the term, it is of the very essence of democracy that the individual citizen shall be invested with the inalienable and sovereign right to make an ass of himself; and furthermore, that he shall be invested with the sovereign right of publicity to tell all the world that he is doing so.”

5. “As I understand the term, it is of the very essence of democracy that the individual citizen shall be invested with the inalienable and sovereign right to make an ass of himself; and furthermore, that he shall be invested with the sovereign right of publicity to tell all the world that he is doing so.”

— Albert Jay Nock

Albert Jay Nock Quote: “Passing from the tyranny of Charles I to the tyranny of Cromwell is like taking a turn in a revolving door; the exertion merely puts you back where you started. If every jobholder in Washington were driven into the Potomac tonight, their places would be taken tomorrow by others precisely like them.”

6. “Passing from the tyranny of Charles I to the tyranny of Cromwell is like taking a turn in a revolving door; the exertion merely puts you back where you started. If every jobholder in Washington were driven into the Potomac tonight, their places would be taken tomorrow by others precisely like them.”

— Albert Jay Nock

Albert Jay Nock Quote: “Koh-i-noor in a limestone-quarry as an article of that character.”

7. “Koh-i-noor in a limestone-quarry as an article of that character.”

— Albert Jay Nock

Albert Jay Nock Quote: “I wonder how many such men in America would know that Communism, the New Deal, Fascism, Nazism, are merely so-many trade-names for collectivist Statism, like the trade-names for tooth-pastes which are all exactly alike except for the flavouring.”

8. “I wonder how many such men in America would know that Communism, the New Deal, Fascism, Nazism, are merely so-many trade-names for collectivist Statism, like the trade-names for tooth-pastes which are all exactly alike except for the flavouring.”

— Albert Jay Nock

Albert Jay Nock Quote: “In literature one has the best company in the world at complete command; one also has the worst. One has a social conscience which dissuades one from harbouring unprofitable company in life, and I find that my two canons are a great aid and support for an analogous literary conscience which speaks up against consorting with unprofitable company in literature.”

9. “In literature one has the best company in the world at complete command; one also has the worst. One has a social conscience which dissuades one from harbouring unprofitable company in life, and I find that my two canons are a great aid and support for an analogous literary conscience which speaks up against consorting with unprofitable company in literature.”

— Albert Jay Nock

Albert Jay Nock Quote: “State power has not only been thus concentrated at Washington, but it has been so far concentrated into the hands of the Executive that the existing regime is a regime of personal government. It is nominally republican, but actually monocratic; a curious anomaly, but highly characteristic of a people little gifted with intellectual integrity.”

10. “State power has not only been thus concentrated at Washington, but it has been so far concentrated into the hands of the Executive that the existing regime is a regime of personal government. It is nominally republican, but actually monocratic; a curious anomaly, but highly characteristic of a people little gifted with intellectual integrity.”

— Albert Jay Nock

Albert Jay Nock Quote: “Instead of recognizing the State as “the common enemy of all well-disposed, industrious and decent men,” the run of mankind, with rare exceptions, regards it not only as a final and indispensable entity, but also as, in the main, beneficent.”

11. “Instead of recognizing the State as “the common enemy of all well-disposed, industrious and decent men,” the run of mankind, with rare exceptions, regards it not only as a final and indispensable entity, but also as, in the main, beneficent.”

— Albert Jay Nock

Albert Jay Nock Quote: “The most important extra-curricular lesson we learned, – and we learned it properly, – was summed up in Chief Justice Jay’s dictum that “justice is always the same, whether it be due from one man to a million, or from a million to one man.” We learned this, not by precept, but by example, which is the best way to learn such lessons. In.”

12. “The most important extra-curricular lesson we learned, – and we learned it properly, – was summed up in Chief Justice Jay’s dictum that “justice is always the same, whether it be due from one man to a million, or from a million to one man.” We learned this, not by precept, but by example, which is the best way to learn such lessons. In.”

— Albert Jay Nock

Albert Jay Nock Quote: “It is unfortunately none to well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its own. All the power it has is what society gives it, plus what confiscates from time to time on one pretext or another. There is never, nor can there be, any strengthening of State power without a corresponding and roughly equivalent depletion of social power.”

13. “It is unfortunately none to well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its own. All the power it has is what society gives it, plus what confiscates from time to time on one pretext or another. There is never, nor can there be, any strengthening of State power without a corresponding and roughly equivalent depletion of social power.”

— Albert Jay Nock

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