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Tag: Josiah Warren

(1798-1874)

If you don’t work, neither should you eat

The necessity of every one paying in his own labor for what he consumes, affords the only legitimate and effectual check to excessive luxury, which has so often ruined individuals, states and empires; and which has now brought almost universal bankruptcy upon us.

Author Greg RavenPosted on December 6, 2015November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories individualismTags Josiah Warren

Forced equality is madness

To require conformity in the appreciation of sentiments or the interpretation of language, or uniformity of thought, feeling, or action, is a fundamental error in human legislation — a madness which would be only equaled by requiring all men to possess the same countenance, the same voice or the same stature.

Author Greg RavenPosted on October 9, 2009November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories equalityTags Josiah Warren

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