"To be governed is to be watched, inspected, spied
upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, regulated, enrolled, indoctrinated,
preached at, controlled, checked, 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, counted, taxed, stamped, measured, numbered, assessed, licensed,
authorized, admonished, prevented, forbidden, reformed, corrected, punished.
It
is, under pretext of public utility, and in the name of the general interest,
to be placed under contribution, drilled, fleeced, exploited, monopolized,
extorted from, squeezed, hoaxed, robbed; then, at the slightest resistance, the
first word of complaint, to be repressed, fined, vilified, harassed, hunted
down, abused, clubbed, disarmed, bound, choked, imprisoned, judged, condemned,
shot, deported, sacrificed, sold, betrayed; and to crown all, mocked,
ridiculed, derided, outraged, dishonored.
That is government; that is its
justice; that is its morality."
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
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