Uploaded January 2009 | Updated September 2026, 3 hours ago
10 days later, the nightmare continues.
There is no horror, no cruelty, sacrilege, or perjury, no imposture, no infamous transaction, no cynical robbery, no bold plunder or shabby betrayal that has not been or is not daily being perpetrated by the representatives of the states, under no other pretext than those elastic words, so convenient and yet so terrible: for reasons of state. ~ Mikhail Bakunin, Federalism, Socialism, Anti-Theologism, 1867
10 days later, the nightmare continues.
There is no horror, no cruelty, sacrilege, or perjury, no imposture, no infamous transaction, no cynical robbery, no bold plunder or shabby betrayal that has not been or is not daily being perpetrated by the representatives of the states, under no other pretext than those elastic words, so convenient and yet so terrible: for reasons of state. ~ Mikhail Bakunin, Federalism, Socialism, Anti-Theologism, 1867
