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Powerful States Can Maintain Themselves Only By Crime, Little States Are Virtuous Only By Weakness.

People Go To Church For The Same Reasons They Go To A Tavern: To Stupefy Themselves, To Forget Their Misery, To Imagine Themselves, For A Few Minutes Anyway, Free And Happy.

The Liberty Of Man Consists Solely In This, That He Obeys The Laws Of Nature Because He Has Himself Recognized Them As Such, And Not Because They Have Been Imposed Upon Him Externally By Any Foreign Will Whatsoever, Human Or Divine, Collective Or Individual.

In Antiquity Slaves Were, In All Honesty Called Slaves. In The Middle Ages, They Took The Name Of Serfs. Nowadays They Are Called Wage Earners.

Does Man's Freedom Consist In Revolting Against All Laws? We Say No, In So Far As Laws Are Natural, Economic, And Social Laws, Not Authoritatively Imposed But Inherent In Things, In Relations, In Situations, The Natural Development Of Which Is Expressed By Those Laws. We Say Yes If They Are Political And Juridical Laws, Imposed Upon Men By Men.