Do you not see, first, that - as a mental abstract - physical force is directly opposed to morality; and secondly, that it practically drives out of existence the moral forces? - Auberon Herbert Quotes
Do you not see, first, that - as a mental abstract - physical force is directly opposed to morality; and secondly, that it practically drives out of existence the moral forces? Auberon Herbert
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Every tax or rate, forcibly taken from an unwilling person, is immoral and oppressive. - Auberon Herbert Quotes

Every tax or rate, forcibly taken from an unwilling person, is immoral and oppressive.

Auberon Herbert

 American Musician
And what sort of philosophical doctrine is thi - that numbers confer unlimited rights, that they take from some persons all rights over themselves, and vest these rights in others. - Auberon Herbert Quotes

And what sort of philosophical doctrine is thi - that numbers confer unlimited rights, that they take from some persons all rights over themselves, and vest these rights in others.

Auberon Herbert

 American Musician
Deny human rights, and however little you may wish to do so, you will find yourself abjectly kneeling at the feet of that old-world god, Force. - Auberon Herbert Quotes

Deny human rights, and however little you may wish to do so, you will find yourself abjectly kneeling at the feet of that old-world god, Force.

Auberon Herbert

 American Musician
If you tie a man's hands there is nothing moral about his not committing murder. - Auberon Herbert Quotes

If you tie a man's hands there is nothing moral about his not committing murder.

Auberon Herbert

 American Musician
The ruling idea of the politician - stated rather bluntly - is that those who are opposed to him exist for the purpose of being made to serve his ends, if he can get power enough in his hands to force these ends upon them. - Auberon Herbert Quotes

The ruling idea of the politician - stated rather bluntly - is that those who are opposed to him exist for the purpose of being made to serve his ends, if he can get power enough in his hands to force these ends upon them.

Auberon Herbert

 American Musician
How can an act done under compulsion have any moral element in it, seeing that what is moral is the free act of an intelligent being? - Auberon Herbert Quotes

How can an act done under compulsion have any moral element in it, seeing that what is moral is the free act of an intelligent being?

Auberon Herbert

 American Musician
There never yet has been a great system sustained by force under which all the best faculties of men have not slowly withered. - Auberon Herbert Quotes

There never yet has been a great system sustained by force under which all the best faculties of men have not slowly withered.

Auberon Herbert

 American Musician
The career of a politician mainly consists in making one part of the nation do what it does not want to do, in order to please and satisfy the other part of the nation. - Auberon Herbert Quotes

The career of a politician mainly consists in making one part of the nation do what it does not want to do, in order to please and satisfy the other part of the nation.

Auberon Herbert

 American Musician
If government half a century ago had provided us with all our dinners and breakfasts, it would be the practice of our orators today to assume the impossibility of our providing for ourselves. - Auberon Herbert Quotes

If government half a century ago had provided us with all our dinners and breakfasts, it would be the practice of our orators today to assume the impossibility of our providing for ourselves.

Auberon Herbert

 American Musician
If we cannot by reason, by influence, by example, by strenuous effort, and by personal sacrifice, mend the bad places of civilization, we certainly cannot do it by force. - Auberon Herbert Quotes

If we cannot by reason, by influence, by example, by strenuous effort, and by personal sacrifice, mend the bad places of civilization, we certainly cannot do it by force.

Auberon Herbert

 American Musician
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