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

- Robert Nozick

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

- Robert Nozick

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 dir…

- Robert Nozick

The illegitimate use of a state by economic interests for their own ends is based upon a preexisting illegitimate power of the state to enrich some p…

- Robert Nozick

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

- Robert Nozick

Our main conclusions about the state are that a minimal state, limited, to the narrow functions of protection against force, theft, fraud, enforcemen…

- Robert Nozick

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

- Robert Nozick

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

- Robert Nozick

Is there really someone who, searching for a group of wise and sensitive persons to regulate him for his own good, would choose that group of people …

- Robert Nozick