(Submitted by Oppo [High Praise!])
“To be GOVERNED is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, regulated, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, checked, estimated, valued, censured, commanded, by creatures who have neither the right nor the wisdom nor the virtue to do so.
To be GOVERNED is to be at every operation, at every transaction noted, registered, counted, taxed, stamped, measured, numbered, assessed, licensed, authorized, admonished, prevented, forbidden, reformed, corrected, punished.
It is, under pretext of public utility, and in the name of the general interest, to be place under contribution, drilled, fleeced, exploited, monopolized, extorted from, squeezed, hoaxed, robbed; then, at the slightest resistance, the first word of complaint, to be repressed, fined, vilified, harassed, hunted down, abused, clubbed, disarmed, bound, choked, imprisoned, judged, condemned, shot, deported, sacrificed, sold, betrayed; and to crown all, mocked, ridiculed, derided, outraged, dishonored.
That is government; that is its justice; that is its morality.”
~Pierre-Joseph Proudhon: General Idea of the Revolution in the Nineteenth Century, translated by John Beverly Robinson (London: Freedom Press, 1923), pp. 293-294.
Kudos (yes, I know, bacon) for hunting down the original text citation, which I was too lazy to do, and for correcting any typos, which I was too lzy to do.
Wait a second — that’s the wrong bibliographic citation: it’s the Democrat’s party platform.
We are moving to a two class society, Those that wish to rule and those that choose to let them.
Reminds me of:
“I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.” -some dude I heard sampled in some song I can’t remember now.
Not quite off the top of my head- Iron Maiden sampled it from the tv show The Prisoner.