The State

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...the present system of penal laws presents to our minds an idea of power rather than of justice...

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...it is terrible to feel like a criminal on the run when you know you have done nothing wrong. Is it a crime to offer a safe place to a friend who fears he might be killed? Is it a crime to splash vinegar in the faces of people blinded and asphyxiated by teargas? Is it a crime to bear witness?

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The whole citizens may unite in executing the plans of state, but never in deliberating on its measures, or enacting its laws. What belongs to the whole people under democracy, is here [in aristocracy] confined to a part.

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Aside from the fact that the State is itself the greatest criminal, breaking every written and natural law, stealing in the form of taxes, killing in the form of war and capital punishment, it has come to an absolute standstill in coping with crime. It has failed utterly to destroy or even minimize the horrible scourge of its own creation.

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Since the state is the "lordship of law," its hierarchy, it follows that the egoist, in all cases where his advantage runs against the state's, can satisfy himself only by crime.

Chronology :

March 12, 2020 : The State -- Added.
April 04, 2020 : The State -- Updated.

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