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[Anonymous Anarchist from the Iron Column, Spanish Revolution] Anybody, captive in prison or capitve in the world, who has not understood the tragedy of men condemned to spend their lives blindly and silently obeying orders, can ever know the nether regions of pain or the terrible scar it leaves in those who must drink, touch, and feel the pain of silence and obedience. Wishing to speak and keeping quiet; wishing to sing and remaining hushed; wishing to laugh and having to strangle the feeblest impulse with brute force; wishing to love and condemned to swim in the slime of hatred!
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...even the most effective governments cannot take the compliance of its citizens for granted.
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Up to now you have believed in the existence of tyrants. Well, you were mistaken. There are only slaves. Where none obeys, none commands.
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An institution answerable to the community is not a government; a government is an institution to which the community is obedient. That upon which the influence of the individual can be brought to bear cannot be described as a government; government is the name reserved for that which crushes individuals beneath the weight of its influence.
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Everyone knows that the fire from a little spark will increase and blaze ever higher as long as it finds wood to burn; Appeasement is useless, yet without being quenched by water, but merely by finding no more fuel to feed on, it consumes itself, dies down, and is no longer a flame. Similarly, the more tyrants pillage, the more they crave, the more they ruin and destroy; the more one yields to them, and obeys them, by that much do they become mightier and more formidable, the readier to annihilate and destroy. But if not one thing is yielded to them, if, without any violence they are simply not obeyed, they become naked and undone and as nothing, just as, when the root receives no nourishment, the branch withers and dies.
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Thus much I should perhaps have said, though I were sure I should have spoken only to trees and stones; and had none to cry to, but with the prophet, "O earth, earth, earth!" to tell the very soil itself, what her perverse inhabitants are deaf to.
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April 07, 2020 : Obedience -- Added.
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