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What is permitted to the State is forbidden to the individual. Such is the maxim of all governments.
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You may dispose of me very easily. I am nearly disposed of now.
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Your Government becomes your God, from whom you accept privileges, and in whose hands all rights are vested. Once more the individual has no rights; once more intangible, irresponsible authority assumes the power of deciding what is right and what is wrong. Once more the race must labor under just such restricted conditions as the law -- the voice of the Authority, the governmentalist's bible -- shall dictate.
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The citizen has no interest in the annexation of kingdoms; he must find his importance diminished, as the state is enlarged. But ambitious men, under the enlargement of territory, find a more plentiful harvest of power, and of wealth, while government itself is an easier task. Hence the ruinous progress of empire; and hence free nations, under the show of acquiring dominion, suffer themselves, in the end, to be yoked with the slaves they had conquered.
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When the thrust of development was directed toward the realization of communal objectives under the momentum of nationalism, imperialism, and communism, the needs and desires of the individual were submerged. The millions who were injured or killed in wars and revolutions undertaken in the name of achieving important collective goals gave telling evidence of the dangers of leaving the individual out of any system of social accounting.
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...what could be more burdensome for a regime than to claim control over the private life of the individual, who needs autonomy if he is to develop a true morality and reach genuine fulfillment? Only immature peoples would subject themselves to such infringement.
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Man can have all the glories of the earth, but he must not become conscious of himself. The State, society, and moral laws all sing the same refrain: Man can have all the glories of the earth, but he must not become conscious of himself.
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It matters not whether it is government by divine right or majority rule. In every instance its aim is the absolute subordination of the individual.
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With human nature caged in a narrow space, whipped daily into submission, how can we speak of its potentialities?
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Flattered by the press for his readership, wooed by the politician for his vote, cajoled by the salesman for his money, how can he escape the feeling that he is naught but a unit of exploitation, one among millions, and as near anonymous as makes no difference?
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How beggarly little is left us, yes, how really nothing! Everything has been removed, we must not venture on anything unless it is given us; we continue to live only by the grace of the giver. You must not pick up a pin, unless indeed you have got leave to do so. And got it from whom? From respect! Only when this lets you have it as property, only when you can respect it as property, only then may you take it. And again, you are not to conceive a thought, speak a syllable, commit an action, that should have their warrant in you alone, instead of receiving it from morality or reason or humanity. Happy unconstraint of the desirous man, how mercilessly people have tried to slay you on the altar of constraint!
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One must act "disinterestedly," not want to benefit himself, but the state. Hereby the latter has become the true person, before whom the individual personality vanishes; not I live, but it lives in me.
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Liberalism as a whole has a deadly enemy, an invincible opposite, as God has the devil: by the side of man stands always the un-man, the individual, the egoist. State, society, humanity, do not master this devil.
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I get around a rock that stands in my way, until I have powder enough to blast it; I get around the laws of a people, until I have gathered strength to overthrow them. Because I cannot grasp the moon, is it therefore to be "sacred" to me, an Astarte? If I only could grasp you, I surely would, and, if I only find a means to get up to you, you shall not frighten me! You inapprehensible one, you shall remain inapprehensible to me only until I have acquired the might for apprehension and call you my own; I do not give myself up before you, but only bide my time. Even if for the present I put up with my inability to touch you, I yet remember it against you.
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...in opposition to the state, I feel more and more clearly that there is still left me a great might, the might over myself, over everything that pertains only to me and that exists only in being my own.
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Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man a conscience then?
Chronology :
March 12, 2020 : The State -- Added.
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