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Like all predatory or parasitic institutions, its first instinct is that of self-preservation. all its enterprises are directed first towards preserving its own life, and, second, towards increasing its own power and enlarging the scope of its own activity. for the sake of this it will, and regularly does, commit any crime which circumstances make expedient.
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Like All Predatory Or Parasitic Institutions, Its

Albert J. Nock
Like all predatory or parasitic institutions, its first instinct is that of self-preservation. all its enterprises are directed first towards preserving its own life, and, second, towards increasing its own power and enlarging the scope of its own activity. for the sake of this it will, and regularly does, commit any crime which circumstances make expedient.
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