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"To be GOVERNED is to be kept in sight, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, estimated, valued, censured, commanded, by creatures who have neither the right, nor the wisdom, nor the virtue to do so...
To be GOVERNED is to be at every operation, at every transaction, noted, registered, enrolled, taxed, stamped, measured, numbered, assessed, licensed, authorized, admonished, forbidden, reformed, corrected, punished. It is, under pretext of public utility, and in the name of the general interest, to be placed under contribution, trained, ransomed, exploited, monopolized, extorted, squeezed, mystified, robbed; then, at the slightest resistance, the first word of complaint, to be repressed, fined, despised, harassed, tracked, abused, clubbed, disarmed, choked, imprisoned, judged, condemned, shot, deported, sacrificed, sold, betrayed; and to crown all, mocked, ridiculed, outraged, dishonored. That is government; that is its justice; that is its morality."
 By: | Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (more quotes by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon or books by/about Pierre-Joseph Proudhon) |
| (1809-1865) French mutualist political philosopher |
Source: | The General Idea of the Revolution in the 19th Century, 1851 http://books.google.com/books?id=_apVMk2aEzQC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA294#v=onepage&f=false |
Categories: | Authority, Centralization, Control, Crime, Equality, Government, Monopoly, NWO, Obedience, Persecution, Police, Power, Repression, Sovereignty, Subservience, Surveillance, Taxation, Totalitarian, Tyranny, Uniformity |
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