“Thus the state never intentionally confronts a man's sense, intellectual or moral, but only his body, his senses. It is not armed with superior wit or honesty, but with superior physical strength. I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.”
― Civil Disobedience
― Civil Disobedience
“The government itself, which is only the mode which the people have chosen to execute their will, is equally liable to be abused and perverted before the people can act through it.”
― Civil Disobedience
― Civil Disobedience
“This island refuge that has sustained her now proves to be no refuge after all, for these days, the world is ruled by arrogant narcissists who have exchanged their souls for the promise of power, and in spite of all their talk about justice and the betterment of “the people,” they care naught for any but themselves. In their high hubris, they are masters of destruction and press their many kinds of ruination into every crack and crevice, so that even the most remote sanctuary will in time receive the consequences of their insanity.”
― The House at the End of the World
― The House at the End of the World
“No pain no gain is for idiots, masochists and sadists.”
― How to Hypnotise Anyone - Confessions of a Rogue Hypnotist
― How to Hypnotise Anyone - Confessions of a Rogue Hypnotist
“There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly.”
― Civil Disobedience and Other Essays
― Civil Disobedience and Other Essays
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