"State is the name of the coldest of all cold monsters. Coldly it lies; and this lie slips from its mouth: 'I, the state, am the people’."
— Statism

January 1, 1970

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Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, trans. Kaufmann, New York: NY, Modern Library (1995) p. 48, 1.11: “On the New Idol”