"To be GOVERNED is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, regulated, enrolled,
indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, checked, estimated, valued, censured, commanded, by creatures who have
neither the right nor the wisdom nor the virtue to do so. To be GOVERNED is to be at every operation, at every
transaction noted, registered, counted, taxed, stamped, measured, numbered, assessed, licensed, authorized,
admonished, prevented, forbidden, reformed, corrected, punished. It is, under pretext of public utility, and in the
name of the general interest, to be place[d] under contribution, drilled, fleeced, exploited, monopolized, extorted
from, squeezed, hoaxed, robbed; then, at the slightest resistance, the first word of complaint, to be repressed,
fined, vilified, harassed, hunted down, abused, clubbed, disarmed, bound, choked, imprisoned, judged, condemned,
shot, deported, sacrificed, sold, betrayed; and to crown all, mocked, ridiculed, derided, outraged, dishonored. That
is government; that is its justice; that is its morality." (P.-J. Proudhon, General Idea of the Revolution in the
Nineteenth Century, translated by John Beverly Robinson (London: Freedom Press, 1923), pp. 293-294.)