There's Only One Way To Improve Society.

Another Strange Notion Pervading Whole Peoples Is That The State Has Money Of Its Own; And Nowhere Is This Absurdity More Firmly Fixed Than In America. The State Has No Money. It Produces Nothing. It Existence Is Purely Parasitic, Maintained By Taxation; That Is To Say, By Forced Levies On The Production Of Others. 'government Money,' Of Which One Hears So Much Nowadays, Does Not Exist; There Is No Such Thing.

The Competition Of Social Power With State Power Is Always Disadvantaged, Since The State Can Arrange The Terms Of Competition To Suit Itself, Even To The Point Of Outlawing Any Exercise Of Social Power Whatever In The Premises; In Other Words, Giving Itself A Monopoly.

The State Claims And Exercises The Monopoly Of Crime... It Forbids Private Murder, But Itself Organizes Murder On A Colossal Scale. It Punishes Private Theft, But Itself Lays Unscrupulous Hands On Anything It Wants, Whether The Property Of Citizen Or Of Alien.

The Simple Truth Is That Our Businessmen Do Not Want A Government That Will Let Business Alone. They Want A Government They Can Use.

Concerning Culture As A Process, One Would Say That It Means Learning A Great Many Things And Then Forgetting Them; And The Forgetting Is As Necessary As The Learning.