Quotes by Robert Nozick

I think a lot of Marx was quite sloppy. There was all sorts of politically aggressive language when he lacked arguments for things.

The fundamental question of political philosophy, one that precedes questions about how the state should be organized, is whether there should be any state at all. Why not have anarchy?

Utopia is a framework for utopias, a place where people are at liberty to join together voluntarily to pursue and attempt to realize their own vision of the good life in the ideal community but where no one can impose his own utopian vision upon others.

There are only individual people, different individual people, with their own individual lives. Using one of these people for the benefit of others uses him and benefits the others. Nothing more. What happens is that something is done to him for the sake of others. Talk of an overall social good covers this up.

Through the evolutionary process, those who are able to engage in social cooperation of various sorts do better in survival and reproduction.