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"There
is no horror, no cruelty, sacrilege, or perjury, no imposture,
no infamous transaction, no cynical robbery, no bold plunder or
shabby betrayal that has not been or is not daily being perpetrated
by the representatives of the states, under no other pretext than
those elastic words, so convenient and yet so terrible: 'for reasons
of state.'"
- - Michael Bakunin, "Rousseau's Theory of the State",
in Reasoned Proposal to the Central Committee of the League for
Peace and Freedom, presented in 1867. |