Order derived through submission and maintained by terror is not much of
a safe guaranty; yet that is the only "order" that governments have
ever maintained. True social harmony grows naturally out of solidarity
of interests. In a society where those who always work never have
anything, while those who never work enjoy everything, solidarity of
interests is non-existent; hence social harmony is but a myth.... Thus
the entire arsenal of governments - laws, police, soldiers, the courts,
legislatures, prisons - is strenuously engaged in "harmonizing" the most
antagonistic elements in society.
--Emma Goldman, "Anarchism"
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