Now the [Utah] Territory is virtually under the theocratic government of the Mormon Church. The union of church and state is compl...ete. The result is the usual one, the usurpation or absorption of all temporal authority and power by the church. Polygamy and every other evil sanctioned by the church is safe. To destroy the temporal power of the Mormon Church is the end in view.... Mormonism as a sectarian idea is nothing, but as a system of government it is our duty to deal with it as an enemy to our institutions, and its supporters and leaders as criminals.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The educational system in large countries will always be utterly mediocre, for the same reason that the cooking in large kitchens ...is mediocre at best.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The consistent anarchist ... should be a socialist, but a socialist of a particular sort. He will not only oppose alienated and sp...ecialized labor and look forward to the appropriation of capital by the whole body of workers, but he will also insist that this appropriation be direct, not exercised by some elite force acting in the name of the proletariat.... Some sort of council communism is the natural form of revolutionary socialism in an industrial society. It reflects the intuitive understanding that democracy is largely a sham when the industrial system is controlled by any form of autocratic elite, whether of owners, managers, and technocrats, a "vanguard" party, or a State bureaucracy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We live in a very low state of the world, and pay unwilling tribute to government founded on force. There is not, among the most r...eligious and instructed men of the most religious and civil nations, a reliance on the moral sentiment, and a sufficient belief in the unity of things to persuade them that society can be maintained without artificial restraints, as well as the solar system; or that the private citizen might be reasonable, and a good neighbor, without the hint of a jail or a confiscation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Exploitation and oppression is not a matter of race. It is the system, the apparatus of world-wide brigandage called imperialism, ...which made the Powers behave the way they did. I have no illusions on this score, nor do I believe that any Asian nation or African nation, in the same state of dominance, and with the same system of colonial profit-amassing and plunder, would have behaved otherwise.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In every dualistic system, and especially in that of Kant, the fundamental defect makes itself visible in the inconsistency of uni...fying at one moment what a moment before had been explained to be independent and therefore incapable of unification. And then, at the very moment after unification has been alleged to be the truth, we suddenly come upon the doctrine that the two elements which, in their true state of unification, had been refused all independent subsistence, are only true and actual in their state of separation. Philosophizing of this kind wants the little penetration needed to discover, that this shuffling only evidences how unsatisfactory each one of the two terms is. And it fails simply because it is incapable of bringing two thoughts together.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It does not follow, because our difficulties are stupendous, because there are some souls timorous enough to doubt the validity an...d effectiveness of our ideals and our system, that we must turn to a state controlled or state directed social or economic system in order to cure our troubles.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am fearful that the paper system ... will ruin the state. Its demoralizing effects are already seen and spoken of everywhere ...... I therefore protest against receiving any of that trash.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
While the system of holding people in hostage is as old as the oldest war, a fresher note is introduced when a tyrannic state is a...t war with its own subjects and may hold any citizen in hostage with no law to restrain it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Almost all marriages are only concubinages, liaisons, or rather provisional attempts, remote approximations of real marriage. The ...true nature of marriage does not conform to the paradoxes of this or that system, but rather according to all canonical and secular laws that more than one person should become only one. This ought to warrant the least possible infringement of free will, which certainly has a right to be consulted when the question at issue is whether one is to be an individual or only the integral part of a common personality; it is even hard see what legitimate argument can be raised against a marriage à quatre. But if the state must insist on holding together those attempts at marriage that have failed, it is actually obstructing marriage, for its cause would be advanced by new and possibly more successful attempts.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »