"To be governed is to be watched over, inspected, spied upon, directed,
legislated at, regulated, docketed, indoctrinated, preached at,
controlled, assessed, weighed, censored, ordered about, by men who have
neither the tight, nor the knowledge, nor the virtue. To be governed
means to be, at each operation, at each transaction, at each movement,
noted, registered, controlled, taxed, stamped, measured, valued,
assessed, patented, licensed, authorised, endorsed, admonished,
hampered, reformed, rebuked, arrested. It is to be, on the pretext of
the general interest, taxed, drilled, held to ransom, exploited,
monopolised, extorted, squeezed, hoaxed, robbed,- then at the least
resistance, at the first word of complaint, to be repressed, fined,
abused, annoyed, followed, bullied, beaten, disarmed, garrotted,
imprisoned, machine-gunned, judged, condemned, deported, flayed, sold,
betrayed, and finally mocked, ridiculed, insulted, dishonoured. Such is
government, such is justice, such is morality."
~ Proudhon
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