Josiah Warren Quotes

• Governments commit more crimes upon persons and property and contribute more to their insecurity than all [the] criminals put together.

  Josiah Warren

  Government, Insecurity, Together

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• Liberty, then, is the sovereignty of the individual, and never shall man know liberty until each and every individual is acknowledged to be the only legitimate sovereign of his or her person, time, and property, each living and acting at his own cost.

  Josiah Warren

  Exercise, Men, Liberty

  "Equitable Commerce". Book by Josiah Warren, 1848.

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• Everyone must feel that he is the supreme arbiter of his own [destiny], that no power on earth shall rise over him, that he is and always shall be sovereign of himself and all relating to his individuality. Then only shall all men realize security of person and property.

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  Destiny, Men, Individuality

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• Public influence is the real government of the world.

  Josiah Warren

  Real, Government, World

  Josiah Warren, Crispin Sartwell (2011). “The Practical Anarchist: Writings of Josiah Warren”, p.240, Fordham Univ Press

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• Es peligroso entender las cosas nuevas demasiado deprisa.

  Josiah Warren

  Dangerous, New Things

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• Liberty, then, is the SOVEREIGNTY OF THE INDIVIDUAL.

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  Liberty, Individual, Sovereignty

  "Equitable commerce: a new development of principles as substitutes for laws and governments, for the harmonious adjustment and regulation of the pecuniary, intellectual, and moral intercourse of mankind, proposed as elements of new society".

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• It has now become a very common sentiment, that there is some deep and radical wrong somewhere, and that legislators have proved themselves incapable of discovering, or, of remedying it.

  Josiah Warren

  Common, Radical, Discovering

  Josiah Warren (1852). “Equitable commerce: a new development of principles as substitutes for laws and governments, for the harmonious adjustment and regulation of the pecuniary, intellectual, and moral intercourse of mankind, proposed as elements of new society”, p.105

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• 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.

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  Luxury, Empires, Individual

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• 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.

  Josiah Warren

  Appreciation, Men, Errors

  Josiah Warren (1849). “Equitable Commerce: A New Development of Principles for the Harmoneous Adjustment and Regulation of the Pecuniary,intellectual,and Moral Intercourse of Mankind,proposed as Elements of New Society”, p.5

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• I decline all noisy, wordy, confused, and personal controversies.

  Josiah Warren

  Confused, Aggravation, Decline

  Josiah Warren (1875). “True Civilization: A Subject of Vital and Serious Interest to All People; But Most Immediately to the Men and Women of Labor and Sorrow”, p.106

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• The disconnection of Church and State was a master stroke for freedom and harmony.

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  Atheism, Church, Harmony

  Josiah Warren (1852). “Equitable Commerce: a New Development of Principles, as Substitutes for Laws and Governments ...: Proposed as Elements of New Society”, p.22

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• The circulating medium being issued only by those who labor, they would suddenly become invested with all the wealth and all the power; and those who did not labor, be they ever so rich now, would as suddenly become poor and powerless.

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  Power, Wealth, Rich

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• It goes to establish a just and permanent principle of trade which puts an end to all serious fluctuations in prices and consequently, to all the insecurity and ruin which these fluctuations produce; and to build up those who are already ruined.

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  Insecurity, Principles, Ruins

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• Aquellos que han escuchado o leído algo de mí sobre el tema, saben que uno de los principales puntos en los que insisto es que la formación de sociedades o cualquier otra combinación artificial ES el primer, más grande y más fatal error que jamás hayan cometido los legisladores y los reformadores.

  Josiah Warren

  Mistake, Firsts, Combination

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• It has a sound and rational circulating medium, a real and definite representative of wealth.

  Josiah Warren

  Real, Sound, Corny

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• This circulating medium has a natural tendency to lessen by degrees the value and the use of money, and finally to render it powerless; and consequently to sweep away all the crushing masses of fraud, iniquity, cruelty, corruption and imposition that are built upon it.

  Josiah Warren

  Crush, Money, Hype

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