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For these secular goods, connected with the enhancement of life, the education of man and the use of the intelligence to realize reason and beauty in the nation's communal living, are alien to our traditional ideal of the State. The State is intimately connected with war, for it is the organization of the collective community when it acts in a political manner, and to act in a political manner towards a rival group has meant, throughout all history — war.
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Allied to free education must be the movement to alter society. It is not enough to abolish examinations, one has to alter a competitive society. It is not enough to abolish classroom dictatorship, it is necessary to abolish governmental discipline.
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To inculcate this proud spirit of the supremacy of the people over their governors was to be the purpose of public education!
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If the believers in liberty wish the principles of liberty taught, let them never entrust that instruction to any government; for the nature of government is to become a thing apart, an institution existing for its own sake, preying upon the people, and teaching whatever will tend to keep it secure in its seat.
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Through this experience we have been warned – learn everything, don't forget anything!
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Towering over the terrorizers of peoples and the governments professional grave-diggers and stronger than the executioner's and inquisitor's ax is human reason and endures in the ten commandments of the new life which does not perish on the gallows, burned at the stake, strangled by the garrote or before the firing squad.
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...the dissemination of the truth in a society based on coercion was always hindered in one and the same manner, namely, those in power, feeling that the recognition of this truth would undermine their position, consciously or sometimes unconsciously perverted it by explanations and additions quite foreign to it, and also opposed it by open violence.
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Governments, to maintain themselves, diligently exercise a hypnotic influence upon the people. And, therefore, we may help to prevent people killing either Kings or one another, not by killing -- murder only increases the hypnotism -- but by arousing people from their hypnotic condition.
And it is this I have tried to do by these remarks.
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So great has been the advance of the human mind in our time, in spite of the efforts to brutalize us which the masters of ignorance have made for so many centuries.
Chronology :
April 12, 2020 : The State -- Added.
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