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Robert Nozick Quotes on Politics

Robert Nozick was an American philosopher and a longtime professor at Harvard. This page collects quotes attributed to Robert Nozick on the topic of politics, drawn from across the philosopher's works.

Quotes

  • Attributed to Robert Nozick:

    “Whatever arises from a just situation by just steps is itself just.”

  • Attributed to Robert Nozick:

    “The minimal state is the most extensive state that can be justified.”

  • Attributed to Robert Nozick:

    “There is no social entity with a good that undergoes some sacrifice for its own good. There are only individual people, with their own individual lives.”

  • Attributed to Robert Nozick:

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