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"To the average American or Englishman the very name of anarchy causes a shudder, because it invariably conjures up a picture of a land terrorized by low-browed assassins with matted beards, carrying bombs in one hand and mugs of beer in the other. But as a matter of fact, there is no reason whatever to believe that, if all laws were abolished tomorrow, such swine would survive the day. They are incompetents under our present paternalism and they would be incompetents under Dionysian anarchy. The only difference between the two states is that the former, by its laws, protects men of this sort, whereas the latter would work their speedy annihilation." (H.L. Mencken -- "Friedrich Nietzsche", 1913; Transaction Publishers edition, 1993, pp. 196-197) HT Billy Beck.
Posted on: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 17:03:56 +0000

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