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J. M. Coetzeeborn 1940

The modern state appeals to morality, to religion, and to natural law as the ideological foundation of its existence. At the same time it is prepared to infringe any or all of these in the interest of self-preservation.

J. M. Coetzee on government

Diary of a Bad Year (2007), p. 17

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