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Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Good men must not obey the laws too well.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

“There is no true opposition between liberty as such and control as such, for every liberty rests on a corresponding act of control. The true opposition is between the control that cramps the personal life and the spiritual order, and the control that is aimed at securing the external and material conditions of their free and unimpeded development.”
Leonard Trelawney Hobhouse, Liberalism and Other Writings

Hannah Arendt
“No government exclusively based on the means of violence has ever existed. Even the totalitarian ruler, whose chief instrument of rule is torture, needs a power basis—the secret police and its net of informers.”
Hannah Arendt, On Violence

Mikhail Bakunin
“[N]o dictatorship can have any other objective than to perpetuate itself, and . . . it can engender and nurture only slavery in the people who endure it. Liberty can be created only by liberty, by an insurrection of all the people and the voluntary organization of the workers from below upward.”
Mikhail Bakunin, Statism and Anarchy

“Good government is much, but the good will is more, and even the imperfect, halting, confused utterance of the common will may have in it the potency of higher things than a perfection of machinery can ever attain.”
Leonard Trelawney Hobhouse, Liberalism and Other Writings

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The Communist Manifesto by Karl MarxDas Kapital by Karl MarxThe State and Revolution by Vladimir LeninThe Jungle by Upton SinclairReform or Revolution by Rosa Luxemburg
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