““Ask why you can’t lift an innocent finger without permission, and your lack of the simplest reasoning power baffles them. One must always have a permit; how else could the authorities maintain the social order? In every instance, that will stop you. There is no other way by which Authority can maintain a social order. The tragedy of the Old World is that this only way by which Authority can maintain a social order must inevitably destroy the social order and any form of Authority that tries to maintain it. The energy of a constantly increasing number of bureaucrats has always been subtracted from productive energy in the Old World.””
