#Authority

Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen.

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Man is a slave because freedom is difficult, whereas slavery is easy.

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All exercise of authority perverts, and submission to authority humiliates.

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As soon as we abandon our own reason, and are content to rely upon authority, there is no end to our troubles.

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The generally valuable tendency to conform, not to break ranks conspicuously, not to attract attention to oneself, and to

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As naturally as the ruled always took the morality imposed upon them more seriously than did the rulers themselves, the

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Authority was not long inaugurated in the world, when it became the object of universal competition. Authority, Government,...

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The average mind is slow in grasping a truth, but when the most thoroughly organized, centralized institution, maintained at

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Man is very willing to obey the law of duty, serve his country, and oblige his friends; but he wishes to labor when he pleases,...

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Liberty is the power of choice within the latitude left between the direct constraint of natural forces and the

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I love man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands

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Nothing is more dangerous for man’s private morality than the habit of command. The best man, the most intelligent,...

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The despot assures his subjects civil tranquility… but what do they gain, if the very tranquility they enjoy is one of

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What makes it possible for a totalitarian or any other dictatorship to rule is that people are not informed; how can you have

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Whenever the powers of government are placed in any hands other than those of the community, whether those of one man, of a few,...

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“Free State — what is this? It is by no means the aim of the workers [..] to set the State free. [..] [T]oday [..] the forms ...

“In existing States a fresh law is looked upon as a remedy for evil. Instead of themselves altering what is bad, people begin ...

"But if government, were it even an ideal Revolutionary government, creates no new force and is of no use whatever in the ...

"To overturn a government — this for a revolutionary middle-class man is everything, for us it is only the beginning of ...

"Pashukanis's theory of commodity-exchange and the development of equivalent exchange (capital logic) find their expression ...

"Various ideas regarding the origins of lex talionis exist, but a common one is that it developed as early civilizations ...