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The State acquires power... and because of its insatiable lust for power it is incapable of giving up any of it. The State never abdicates. — Frank Chodorov

Operating in the interstices of communist China society was at once exhilarating and uncertain. There were no rules. Or rather, there was only one rule: that nothing is allowed. But the corollary, which reveals the true genius of China's love of the grey – in contrast to the black and white of the West – is that everything is possible. Nothing is allowed but everything is possible. It's just a matter of finding the right way to explain what you're doing. — Graham Earnshaw Unsavory...

In fact, if law were restricted to protecting all persons, all liberties, and all properties; if law were nothing more than the organized combination of the individual's right to self-defense; if law were the obstacle, the check, the punisher of all oppression and plunder - is it likely that we citizens would then argue much about the extent of the franchise? — Frederic Bastiat The Law

The problem of political theory is how to combine that degree of individual initiative which is necessary for progress, with the degree of social cohesion which is necessary for survival. — Bertrand Russell Bertrand...

Charity is today a 'political charity.'. . . it means the transformation of a society structured to benefit a few who appropriate to themselves the value of the work of others. This transformation ought to be directed toward a radical change in the foundation of society, that is, the private ownership of the means of production. — Gustavo Gutiérrez A Theology of...

The only choice is that between direct or indirect relations of domination and exploitation, with any alternative dismissed as utopian. — Slavoj Žižek Comradely...

Why are so many problems today perceived as problems of intolerance, rather than as problems of inequality, exploitation, or injustice? Why is the proposed remedy tolerance, rather than emancipation, political struggle, or even armed struggle? — Slavoj Žižek Living in the...

The Pages of Gup, now that they had talked through everything so fully, fought hard, remained united, support each other when required to do so, and in general looked like a force with a common...

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