Connexions Quotations
The State
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The energies of much of the left are devoted to issuing appeals to the capitalist state to fix our problems, or to looking for ways to fix the state as if it had somehow accidentally gone off track. The left has always been attracted to the state the way a moth is attracted to a flame, and the darker it gets, the more it is attracted to statist and nationalist illusions.
- Ulli Diemer
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Every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.
- I.F. Stone
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It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.
- Utpon Sinclair
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The left has always been attracted to the state the way a moth is attracted to a flame,
and the darker it gets, the more it is attracted to statist and nationalist illusions.
- Ulli Diemer
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The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.
- Karl Marx
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Remember, any state, any state, has a primary enemy: its own population.
- Noam Chomsky
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We Americans are not usually thought to be a submissive people, but of course we are. Why else would we allow our country to be destroyed? Why else would we be rewarding its destroyers? Why else would we all – by proxies we have given to greedy corporations and corrupt politicians – be participating in its destruction? Most of us are still too sane to piss in our own cistern, but we allow others to do so and we reward them for it. We reward them so well, in fact, that those who piss in our cistern are wealthier than the rest of us.
How do we submit? By not being radical enough. Or by not being thorough enough, which is the same thing.
- Wendell Berry
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While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State.
- V. I. Lenin
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With the end of empire, we are coming to an end of the epoch of rights. We have entered the epoch of responsibilities, which requires new, more socially-minded human beings and new, more participatory and place-based concepts of citizenship and democracy.
- Grace Lee Boggs
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The worst violators of nature and human rights never go to jail. They hold the keys.
- Eduardo Galeano
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To learn more about the State, explore the Connexions Subject Index State page and the State Violence page.
