Nozick, Robert

"Compensation is owed when one's rights are violated through another's action."

"The state must be neutral between conceptions of the good life for its citizens."

"A just distribution respects how people arrived at their holdings through voluntary exchange."

"Forced labor contradicts the principle that people own themselves."

"Justice requires respect for how things came to be distributed, not patterns of distribution."

"Rights function as constraints that cannot be overridden by aggregate benefits."

"The Wilt Chamberlain argument shows patterned distributive principles must constantly be violated."

"Voluntary associations may organize their internal affairs according to their members' wishes."

"Inherited wealth is not unjust if originally justly acquired."

"The state lacks moral authority to redistribute justly acquired holdings."

"Moral side constraints on action protect the separateness and dignity of individuals."

"A minimal state is the only state structure consistent with individual rights."

"You cannot use coercion to create patterns of distribution, no matter how fair they appear."

"The principle of rectification corrects past injustices in how holdings came about."

"People have the right to pursue their own conception of the good life."

"Justice in holdings depends on just acquisition, not on current material patterns."

"Libertarianism respects persons as ends in themselves, not merely as vessels for utility."

"The justice of a holding depends on how it came about, not what it looks like."

"Ownership of oneself excludes owning others or being owned by them."

"Morality imposes stringent constraints on legitimate coercion."

"A state cannot be justified merely by pointing to beneficial consequences for most."

"Transfer is the mechanism through which holdings change justly among people."

"The minimal state respects rights while larger states inevitably violate them."

"Just procedures in acquisition determine justice in holdings over time."

"Individuals cannot be sacrificed for public purposes without violating their rights."

"Patterned principles require ongoing intervention to maintain distributive patterns."

"Rights are not the maximization of some value, but constraints on how you may pursue values."

"A person who has just holdings cannot have them taken for public purposes."

"Voluntary exchange is just when both parties have just initial holdings."

"The state cannot create obligations to support others without their voluntary consent."