“Small groups or communities may be far more oppressive to the individual than larger ones. Men are in many ways freer in large cities than in small villages.” MenWayMayIndividualCommunityFreedomCitiesGroupsOppressionVillageSmall GroupsLarge CitiesSmall Villages Author:Morris Raphael Cohen
“In the Small group the individual can know the effects of his actions on his several fellows, and the rules may effectively forbid him to harm them in any manner and even require him to assist them in specific ways. In the Great Society many of the effects of a person's actions on various fellows must be unknown to him. It can, therefore, not be the specific effects in the particular case, but only rules which define kinds of actions prohibited or required, which must serve as guides to the individual.” KnowsWayKindMayPersonsActionIndividualCasesGroupsEffectsParticularFellowsVariousHarmGuidesSmall GroupsGreat Society Author:Friedrich August von Hayek
“This is where each individual must decide for himself. The essential thing is the decision to challenge the modern state, which without this small group of protesters will be checked by neither brake, value, nor reason.” StatesReasonValuesIndividualChallengesDecisionGroupsModernEssentialsSmall GroupsBrake Author:Jacques Ellul
“An anarchist is someone who doesn't need a cop to make him behave. Anarchism is voluntary cooperation with the right of secession. The individual or the family or the small group as a unit instead of the State.” NeedsStatesIndividualGroupsBehaveCooperationCopUnitsAnarchismAnarchistSmall GroupsSecession Book:The Book of Ammon Source: The Book of Ammon