"The State’s behavior is violence, and it calls its violence “law”; that of the individual, “crime.”"
— Max Stirner

January 1, 1970

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The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual, crime. — As quoted in The Great Quotations (1960) by George Seldes, p. 664