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It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no…
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You get the same order of criminality from any State to which you give power to exercise it; and whatever power you…
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When politicians say "I'm in politics," it may or may not be possible to trust them, but when they say, "I'm in…
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It is interesting to observe that in the year 1935 the average individual's incurious attitude towards the phenomenon of the State is…
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When a beggar asks us for a quarter, our instinct is to say that the State has already confiscated our quarter for…
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The competition of social power with State power is always disadvantaged, since the State can arrange the terms of competition to suit…
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It is easier to seize wealth than to produce it, and as long as the State makes the seizure of wealth a…
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The superficial distinctions of Fascism, Bolshevism, Hitlerism, are the concern of journalists and publicists; the serious student sees in them only one…
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As Dr. Sigmund Freud has observed, it cannot even be said that the State has ever shown any disposition to suppress crime,…
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The State, both in its genesis and by its primary intention, is purely anti-social. It is not based on the idea of…
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It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no…
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The State claims and exercises the monopoly of crime. It forbids private murder, but itself organizes murder on a colossal scale. It…
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Instead of recognizing the State as ‘the common enemy of all well-disposed, industrious and decent men,’ the run of mankind, with rare…
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The newspaper has debauched the American until he is a slavish, simpering, and angerless citizen; it has taught him to be a…
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This leads us to note down in our psychological chart of the mass-man of today two fundamental traits: the free expansion of…
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What will happen once the authentic mass man takes over, we do not know yet, although it may be a fair guess…
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That's what this democracy was for us, a huge supermarket of mass man where we could take a piece here and a…
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[T]he mass-man sees in the State an anonymous power, and feeling himself, like it, anonymous, he believes that the State is something…
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