The Most Libertarian Thing Ever Written

"The New Idol" (Friedrich Nietzsche, 1884)

Somewhere there are still peoples and herds. But not with us, my brothers.

Here there are states.

A state?

What is that?

Well!

Open now your ears to me, for now I will say unto you my word concerning the death of peoples.

A state is the coldest of all cold monsters.

Coldly it lies also.

And this is the lie that creeps from its mouth:

"I, the state, am the people."

It is a lie!

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