Albert Jay Nock

Person · Open Library

Born

13 October 1870

Died

19 August 1945

Works

33

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

New Zealand

Active from

1940-09-27

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Albert Jay Nock (October 13, 1873 – August 19, 1945) was an influential American author, educational theorist, and social critic of the early and middle 20th century. He wrote for numerous journals (co-editing the original Freeman magazine) and also wrote several books. Most famous among these are Our Enemy, the State (1935) and his Memoirs of a Superfluous Man (1943), as well as famous essays such as "Isaiah's Job" (1936) and "Anarchist's Progress" (1927). <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Alb

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Fiji: an open-source platform for biological-image analysis

   · 2012 · cited 65,105x

2. G*Power 3: A flexible statistical power analysis program for the social, behavioral, and biomedical sciences

   · 2007 · cited 53,180x

3. Self-efficacy: Toward a unifying theory of behavioral change.

   · 1977 · cited 49,839x

4. Firm Resources and Sustained Competitive Advantage

   · 1991 · cited 35,216x

5. Statistical power analyses using G*Power 3.1: Tests for correlation and regression analyses

   · 2009 · cited 30,265x

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Quotes

• “The practical reason for freedom is that freedom seems to be the only condition under which any kind of substantial moral fiber can be developed — we have tried law, compulsion and authoritarianism of various kinds, and the result is nothing to be proud of.”
• “The mind is like the stomach. It is not how much you put into it that counts, but how much it digests — if you try to feed it with a shovel you get bad results.”
• “"Democratic" State practice is nothing more or less than State practice. It does not differ from Marxist State practice, Fascist State practice, or any other. Here is the Golden Rule of sound citizenship, the first and greatest lesson in the study of politics: you get the same order of criminality from any State to which you give power to exercise it; and whatever power you give the State to do things for you carries with it the equivalent power to do things to you.”
• “The mentality of an army on the march is merely so much delayed adolescence; it remains persistently, incorrigibly and notoriously infantile.”
• “It would seem that in Paine's view the code of government should be that of the legendary King Pausole, who prescribed but two laws for his subjects, the first being, Hurt no man, and the second, Then do as you please.”
• “We have two distinct types of political organization to take into account; and clearly, too, when their origins are considered, it is impossible to make out that the one is a mere perversion of the other. Therefore when we include both types under a general term like government, we get into logical difficulties; difficulties of which most writers on the subject have been more or less vaguely aware, but which, until within the last half-century, none of them has tried to resolve.”

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