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| The convoluted wording of legalisms grew up around the necessity to hide from ourselves the violence we intend toward each other. Between depriving a man of one hour from his life and depriving him of his life there exists only a difference of degree. You have done violence to him, consumed his energy. | If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual. | Laws to suppress tend to strengthen what they would prohibit.
This is the fine point on which all legal professions of history have based their job security. | Radicals are only to be feared when you try to suppress them. You must demonstrate that you will use the best of what they offer. |
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