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Quote by Roland Baader about rejecting emperors, kings, princes, and also governments for freedomCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"It took us a thousand years to realize that we do not need emperors, kings, and princes to dictate what we must do and refrain from doing. Hopefully, we will not need another thousand years to understand that we also do not need governments, parties, politicians, or officials for that." Roland Baader
Quote by Rose Wilder Lane about the nature of State, Government, and freedomCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The picture of the economic revolution as the final step to freedom was false as soon as I asked myself that question. For, in actual fact, The State, The Government, cannot exist. They are abstract concepts, useful enough in their place, as the theory of minus numbers is useful in mathematics. In actual living experience, however, it is impossible to subtract anything from nothing; when a purse is empty, it is empty, it cannot contain a minus ten dollars. On this same plane of actuality, no State, no Government, exists. What does in fact exist is a man, or a few men, in power over many men." Rose Wilder Lane
Quote by Noam Chomsky on democracy, fear manipulation, and the bewildered herdCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The conception of democracy is the one that I mentioned. The bewildered herd is a problem. We've got to prevent their roar and trampling. We've got to distract them. They should be watching the Superbowl or sitcoms or violent movies. Every once in a while you call on them to chant meaningless slogans like "Support our troops." You've got to keep them pretty scared, because unless they're properly scared and frightened of all kinds of devils that are going to destroy them from outside or inside or somewhere, they may start to think, which is very dangerous, because they're not competent to think. Therefore it's important to distract them and marginalize them." Noam Chomsky
Quote by Voltairine de Cleyre about non-resistance, direct action, and political actionCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"What I say is, that the real non-resistants can believe in direct action only, never in political action. For the basis of all political action is coercion; even when the State does good things, it finally rests on a club, a gun, or a prison, for its power to carry them through." Voltairine de Cleyre
Quote by Gore Vidal about language becoming decadent and used to confuse peopleCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests." Gore Vidal
Quote about modern dictatorship and corporations by Gore VidalCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"What is a president, then? He is the mouthpiece of the corporations - and nothing else. [....] We are no longer a democracy. We gave up our constitution long ago. [....] The modern dictatorship doesn't come with brown or black uniforms. We do it with entertainment, with television, with fun, fun. And an education that dumbs down." Gore Vidal