To be governed ... is to be watched, inspected, directed, indoctrinated, numbered, estimated, regulated, commanded, controlled, law-driven, preached at, spied upon, censured, checked, valued, enrolled - by creatures who have neither the right, nor the wisdom, nor the virtue to do so.
Pierre-Joseph ProudhonIn any given society the authority of man over man runs in inverse proportion to the intellectual development of that society.
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon