"There is no governor anywhere; you are all absolutely free. There is no restraint that cannot be escaped. We are all absolutely free. If everybody could go into dhyana at will, nobody could be controlled — by fear of prison, by fear of whips or electroshock, by fear of death, even. All existing society is based on keeping those fears alive, to control the masses. Ten people who know would be more dangerous than a million armed anarchists."
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Anarchists from the United StatesAbsurdistsHumorists from the United StatesSatirists from the United StatesSocial anarchists
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Hugh Crane a.k.a. Cagliostro the Great, in Schrödinger's Cat Trilogy : The Trick Top Hat (1979)
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Robert Anton Wilson
1932 – 2007
US-amerikanischer Schriftsteller
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