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Alexander II gave his country what it had been waiting for for several centuries. But it turned out that he freed not only the peasants. A new, previously unknown force was unleashed - revolution.
A state is not built on lies. It is not viable. Learn to tell the truth to yourself and your children.
How did the state arise? Why did it achieve such success and why did it collapse?
If you cook it, he will take it away.
The main thing is mistakes. Almost everything starts by mistake. Almost all breakthroughs in music come from a revolution of form. Someone took it and rebelled, and he was by no means everyone’s favorite. But it was he who ultimately founded his own state.
Quote Explanation: Interview from Musician magazine (October 1987).
Who doesn’t understand how important it is for the state to raise children? And yet, without much thought, children are left to the mercy of their parents, no matter how eccentric and bad people they may be.
Kill the state in yourself!
It cannot be denied that it is incomparably more beneficial in the interests of the private individual and in the interests of the public to nip the manifested will in its bud, preventing it from developing and actually causing the intended harm. The state deals with the actions of people, and not with their conscience, ideas, beliefs. Any deviation from this principle constitutes a return to the era of persecution of thought - the era of the Inquisition and torture.
How many years have passed, but I cannot forget either the expression in his eyes, or his slightly ironic smile, or the very definition: Democracy in good weather.
There is not and never will be a government in Russia that suits us. A state that exists on this territory on any principles, be it extreme right or extreme left, is our enemy. And only his absence will satisfy us completely.
Nearby, a bomb is fixed on top of a steel tower and will be tested for the first time today. The code name is Trinity. Robert Oppenheimer was inspired by the poems of his favorite poet, John Donne. He loved poetry and the wilderness of the southwestern United States. This peace-loving man, by chance, became the creator of the most destructive weapon in history. <...> At five o'clock twenty-nine minutes forty-five seconds the bomb exploded. The flash of a nuclear explosion is brighter than the Sun. Watching him, Oppenheimer remembered the lines from the sacred book of Hinduism: "Thus I became death, the destroyer of the universe." Bhagavad Gita. With the testing of this terrible weapon, the transformation of a peaceful country created by the founding fathers into a militarized state began.
... what is a state, if not the same predatory institution. A state institution is only more difficult than that of a Calabrian brigand, but even more immoral and cruel. With the robber, all those who paid taxes received the same security. In the state, the more one participates in organized fraud, the more he receives not only provisions, but also rewards. The emperor, the king, the president are the most secure (he is always guarded), and he spends the most money collected from taxed subjects; then, in proportion to their greater or lesser participation in government crimes, come the commanders-in-chief, ministers, policemen, governors, and so on up to the policemen, who are the least protected and receive the least salary. The one who does not participate at all in government crimes, refusing service, taxes, court, is subjected, like the robbers, to violence.
The sovereign's will is a law and a riddle.
People who conform to the interests of one part of the citizens and neglect the interests of another part bring the worst of evils into the state - discord and indignation.
Of all the evils I have listed, perhaps the worst is the education that the state gives us both at school and in later life. State education so perverts our brain that the very concept of freedom in us disappears and is replaced by slave concepts.
Quote Explanation: Pyotr Kropotkin, essay "The State and Its Role in History"
