6 Benjamin Tucker Quotes on Justice

Benjamin Tucker quotes on justice

25. Once for all, then, we are not opposed to the punishment of thieves and murderers; we are opposed to their manufacture.

31. I have also seen it stated that Capital punishment is murder in its worst form. I should like to know upon what principle of human society these assertions are based and justified.

32. But this is not to say that the society which inflicts capital punishment commits murder. Murder is an offensive act. The term cannot be applied legitimately to any defensive act. And capital punishment, however ineffective it may be and through whatever ignorance it may be resorted to, is a strictly defensive act, - at least in theory.

40. One thing, however, is sure, - that in all cases the effort should be to impose all the cost of repairing the wrong upon the doer of the wrong. This alone is real justice, and of course such justice is necessarily free.

42. The cost of justice can be justly paid only by the invader.

43. The moment that justice must be paid for by the victim of injustice it becomes itself injustice.