Quote #36

I am neither a scientist, nor a philosopher nor even a professional writer. I have written very little in my life time, and have only ever done so in self-defence.

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  3. Freedom without Socialism is privilege and injustice and Socialism without freedom is slavery and brutality.
  4. If there is a State, then there is domination, and in turn, there is slavery.
  5. From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic equality: geniuses and i…
  6. If you took the most ardent revolutionary, vested him in absolute power, within a year he would be worse than the Czar himself.
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  8. Intellectual slavery, of whatever nature it may be, will always have as a natural result both political and social slavery.

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