Concerning Culture As A Process, One Would

The Idea That The State Originated To Serve Any Kind Of Social Purpose Is Completely Unhistorical. It Originated In Conquest And Confiscation - That Is To Say, In Crime. It Originated For The Purpose Of Maintaining The Division Of Society Into An Owning-and-exploiting Class And A Propertyless Dependent Class - That Is, For A Criminal Purpose.

There Are Two Methods, Or Means, And Only Two, Whereby Man's Needs And Desires Can Be Satisfied. One Is The Production And Exchange Of Wealth; This Is The Economic Means. The Other Is The Uncompensated Appropriation Of Wealth Produced By Others; This Is The Political Means.

It Is Unfortunately None Too Well Understood That, Just As The State Has No Money Of Its Own, So It Has No Power Of Its Own. All The Power It Has Is What Society Gives It, Plus What It Confiscates From Time To Time On One Pretext Or Another, There Is No Other Source From Which State Power Can Be Drawn. Therefore Every Assumption Of State Power, Whether By Gift Or Seizure Leaves Society With So Much Less Power; There Is Never, Nor Can Be, Any Strengthening Of State Power Without A Corresponding And Roughly Equivalent Depletion Of Social Power.

Considering Mankind's Indifference To Freedom, Their Easy Gullibility And Their Facile Response To Conditioning, One Might Very Plausibly Argue That Collectivism Is The Political Mode Best Suited To Their Disposition And Their Capacities. Under Its Regime, The Citizen, Like The Soldier, Is Relieved Of The Burden Of Initiative And Is Divested Of All Responsibility, Save For Doing As He Is Told.

When We Speak Freely, Let Us Speak Plainly, For Plain Speech Is Wholesome; Especially, Plain Speech About Public Affairs And Public Men.