“In all times and in all places, whatever may be the name that the government takes, whatever has been its origin, or its organization, its essential function is always that of oppressing and exploiting the masses, and of defending the oppressors and exploiters. Its principal characteristic and indispensable instruments are the bailiff and the tax collector, the soldier and the prison. And to these are necessarily added the time-serving priest or teacher, as the case may be, supported and protected by the government, to render the spirit of the people servile and make them docile under the yoke.”
― Anarchy
― Anarchy
“Prisons are universities of crime, maintained by the state.”
― In Russian and French Prisons
― In Russian and French Prisons
“Nothing is more necessary or stronger in us than rebellion.”
― The Unfinished System of Nonknowledge
― The Unfinished System of Nonknowledge
“Is not all the stupid chatter of most of our newspapers the babble of fools who suffer from the fixed idea of morality, legality, christianity and so forth, and only seem to go about free because the madhouse in which they walk takes in so broad a space?”
― The Ego and His Own: The Case of the Individual Against Authority
― The Ego and His Own: The Case of the Individual Against Authority
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