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Robert Nozick Quotes: Instead of trying to prove your opponent wrong, try to see in what sense he might be right.
         

Instead of trying to prove your opponent wrong, try to see in what sense he might be right.


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Taxation of earnings from labor is on a par with forced labor. Seizing the results of someone's labor is equivalent to seizing hours from him and directing him to carry on various activities.

Taxation of earnings from labor is on a par with forced labor. Seizing the results of someone's labor is equivalent to seizing hours from him and directing him to carry on various activities.



You can't satisfy everybody; especially if there are those who will be dissatisfied unless not everybody is satisfied.

You can't satisfy everybody; especially if there are those who will be dissatisfied unless not everybody is satisfied.



The trouble with government regulation of the market is that it prohibits capitalistic acts between consenting adults.

The trouble with government regulation of the market is that it prohibits capitalistic acts between consenting adults.



Marxian exploitation is the exploitation of people's lack of understanding of economics.

Marxian exploitation is the exploitation of people's lack of understanding of economics.



No state more extensive than the minimal state can be justified.

No state more extensive than the minimal state can be justified.



Taxation of earnings from labor is on a par with forced labor.

Taxation of earnings from labor is on a par with forced labor.



The socialist society would have to forbid capitalist acts between consenting adults.

The socialist society would have to forbid capitalist acts between consenting adults.



A distribution is just if it arises from another just distribution by legitimate means.

A distribution is just if it arises from another just distribution by legitimate means.



What else can matter to us, other than how our lives feel from the inside?

What else can matter to us, other than how our lives feel from the inside?



Through the evolutionary process, those who are able to engage in social cooperation of various sorts do better in survival and reproduction.

Through the evolutionary process, those who are able to engage in social cooperation of various sorts do better in survival and reproduction.





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When asked, 'What is more important: praying or reading the Bible?' I ask, 'What is more important: breathing in or breathing out?



There are times when the evil seems so impenetrable, the wickedness so victorious, you don't even know how to hope. But then the good news bursts in, as impossible to deny as it is to believe.

There are times when the evil seems so impenetrable, the wickedness so victorious, you don't even know how to hope. But then the good news bursts in, as impossible to deny as it is to believe.



The night was ordinary. It usually is, I think, when your life changes. Most people aren't doing anything special when the carefully placed pieces of their life break apart.

The night was ordinary. It usually is, I think, when your life changes. Most people aren't doing anything special when the carefully placed pieces of their life break apart.



In this world the inclination to do things is of more importance than the mere power.

In this world the inclination to do things is of more importance than the mere power.



I can always see something of myself in the characters I play.

I can always see something of myself in the characters I play.



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It's a very odd thing with Hollywood, where you do stand-up, you're good at it, then they go, "How would you like to be a horrible actor?" Then you say, "All right, that sounds good. I'll do that."



I remember saying to my husband, ''Why? Why have you got this lady around?'' And he said, ''Well, I refuse to be the Prince of Wales who never had a mistress.''

I remember saying to my husband, ''Why? Why have you got this lady around?'' And he said, ''Well, I refuse to be the Prince of Wales who never had a mistress.''



Martyrdom, as a rule, establishes the sincerity of the martyr, never the correctness of his thought. Things are true or false in themselves.

Martyrdom, as a rule, establishes the sincerity of the martyr, never the correctness of his thought. Things are true or false in themselves.



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