The State is the coldest of all cold monsters, coldly it lies, too; and this lie creeps from the mouth: ‘I, the State am the people.’ Everything about it is false; it bites with cold teeth.
Friedrich Nietzsche (via nezua)
The moment that the state becomes self-referential, believing that it is the source of its power, it becomes corrupt.
(an off the top of my head synopsis of one of Enrique Dussel’s theses on politics.)
(Source: haereticum, via guerrillamamamedicine)