Tibor R. Machan: State

Tibor R. Machan was Hungarian-American philosopher. Explore interesting quotes on state.

Tibor R. Machan: 26 quotes0 likes

“[The media] assume, in the way they address politicians or report on social problems, that whatever is important to society must be a matter of public or state concern.”

Tibor R. Machan

Source: Private Rights and Public Illusions (1994), p. xiii

“If one behaved as a good citizen or a charitable person simply because one was dreadfully scared of the state placing one in jail, one would not be a good citizen or person but barely more than a circus animal.”

Tibor R. Machan

Source: Classical Individualism: The Supreme Importance of Each Human Being (1998), p. 11

“While individualism was once widely hailed in Britain and especially the United States, today it is deemed amoral and heartless. The individualist viewpoint is unable to promise honestly that everyone will eventually be completely well-off. Critics find this defeatist and insist that ‘we must do better’ while calling upon the forces of the state to see that we do.”

Tibor R. Machan

Source: Private Rights and Public Illusions (1994), p. 67

“To Marx any talk of rights possessed by people equally, unalienably, absolutely, and universally would have to await the communist epoch when all persons will have reached a common nature, total equality and perfection. Until then people are in a state of incompletion and imperfection, incapable of justifying equal human rights.”

Tibor R. Machan

Source: Human Rights and Human Liberties: A Radical Reconsideration of the American Political Tradition, (1975), p. 41