The state furnishes no machinery for arriving at justice.
Clarence Darrow
Clarence Darrow (1857–1938) was an attorney who, from experience, learned that the entire state apparatus of courts, trials, and prisons was the worst single feature of the state. For this reason, he became a radical, and he wrote Resist Not Evil as his manifesto.
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Governments like death but also use public flogging, standing in the stocks, ducking, maiming, down to the humane method of penning in a cage.
Government rests on violence and force; it is sustained by soldiers, policemen, and courts.