(It's better to create than destroy what's unnecessary)

Saturday, July 12, 2008

The Ego And His Own - pg. 253

The State, I mean to say, cannot intend that anybody should
for his own sake have property or actually be rich, nay,
even well-to-do; it can acknowledge nothing, yield nothing, grant
nothing to me as me. The State cannot check pauperism, because
the poverty of possession is a poverty of me. He who is
nothing but what chance or another - to wit, the state - makes
out of him also has quite rightly nothing but what another
gives him. And this other will give him only what he
deserves, what he is worth by service. It is not
he that realizes a value from himself; the State realizes a value
from him.

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