“Every ruler wants to maintain the status quo.”
Tim Powers book The Stress of Her Regard
Interlude “Summer, 1818” (p. 170)
The Stress of Her Regard (1989)
“Freedom as a concept sides with those who are struggling for theirs, whereas nonviolence as a concept sides with the enforcers of normality and the rulers of the status quo.”
Source: "The Failure of Nonviolence" (2013) https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/peter-gelderloos-the-failure-of-nonviolence, Chapter 1. Violence Doesn't Exist
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