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"The State has no moral or scientific justification; it is the pure product of the emergence of violence in human societies."

— Salin, Pascal

Context: From Libéralisme (Odile Jacob, 2000, p. 517), the book's most radical conclusion, that the state is not a social contract or a rational institution but an institution born of domination

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