Ouida (AKA: Maria Louise Ram (January 1, 1839 - January 25, 1908) on State and The Masses(published by RevoltSource) |
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Luxury-Living, English Novelist and Creator of 40 Novels, Short Stories, and Children's Books
: The pseudonym of the English novelist Maria Louise Ram? (although she preferred to be known as Marie Louise de la Ram?e). During her career, Ouida wrote more than 40 novels, as well as short stories, children's books and essays. Moderately successful, she lived a life of luxury, entertaining many of the literary figures of the day. (From: Wikipedia.org.)
Quote #6 on Political Struggle Quotes >> State and The Masses
“...the State only aims at instilling those qualities in its public by which its demands are obeyed, and its exchequer is filled. Its highest attainment is the reduction of mankind to clockwork. In its atmosphere all those finer and more delicate liberties, which require treatment and spacious expansion, inevitably dry up and perish. The State requires a taxpaying machine in which there is no hitch, an exchequer in which there is never a deficit, and a public, monotonous, obedient, colorless, spiritless, moving humbly like a flock of sheep along a straight high road between two walls.”
Source: "Anarchism: What It Really Stands For," by Emma Goldman.
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