#state-quotes
Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus, Capitalism and Schizophrenia, 71
> One is never without the other: a double deterritorialization, the second of which is to a higher power. When Moses undertook his great composition of the desert—where the influence he felt from the nomads was necessarily stronger than that of Yahweh—he took a census of each tribe and organized them numerically; he also decreed a law according to which the firstborn of each tribe at that particular time belonged by right to Yahweh.