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" Very few philosophers have been anarchists. Nearly all of them admit that a State and a power are necessary. They do not wash their hands of it, and yet they do not consent to the myth. Or, when they do, they nonetheless give warning that it is a myth. This
is the source of their uneasiness. It is not an anomaly or an aristocratic malady. "

Maurice Merleau-Ponty , The Merleau-Ponty Reader


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Maurice Merleau-Ponty quote : Very few philosophers have been anarchists. Nearly all of them admit that a State and a power are necessary. They do not wash their hands of it, and yet they do not consent to the myth. Or, when they do, they nonetheless give warning that it is a myth. This<br />is the source of their uneasiness. It is not an anomaly or an aristocratic malady.