How True!

These days legislation & regulation, presided over by unproductive bureaucrats, has stultified initiative in all spheres, with disastrous effects on world-wide economies.

 Anarchist Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809–1865) wrote:

‘To be governed is to be watched over, inspected, spied on, directed, legislated at, regulated, docketed, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, assessed, weighed, censored, ordered about, by men who have neither the right, nor the knowledge, nor the virtue...


‘To be governed is to be at every operation, at every transaction, noted, registered, enrolled, taxed, stamped, measured, numbered, assessed, licensed, authorized, admonished, forbidden, reformed, corrected, punished.'