The positive testimony of history is that the State…

The State did not originate in any form of social agreement, or with any disinterested view of promoting order and justice. Far otherwise. The…

— Albert J. Nock

“Without commerce, advanced social orders can’t evolve, so we’re stuck in the primitive state where every nerd fabricates everything from first principles.”

— Brad Cox

“For, as Professor Turner has pointed out, “history originated as myth” and becomes a “social memory” to which men can appeal, “knowing it will…

— Barbara W. Tuchman

The great drama of Russian history has been between its state and society. Put simply, Russia has always had too much state and not…

— Fareed Zakaria

The history of Oregon is partially the history of a state that legislated not wanting black people around.

— W. Kamau Bell

History is a state of yearning. I yearn for Kay Lake throughout this entire thing. There's an essay I've written where I talked about…

— James Ellroy

There is as far as I know, no example in history, of any state voluntarily ceding power from the centre to its constituent parts.

— Charles Handy

I'm from Arizona where I feel like our history, as a state, is so young in comparison to some of these wonderful southern cities…

— Janet Varney

The idea that the State originated to serve any kind of social purpose is completely unhistorical. It originated in conquest and confiscation-th at is…

— Albert J. Nock

I have visited sweatshops, factories, and crowded slums. If I could not see it, I could smell it. The foundation of society is laid…

— Helen Keller

Any piece of knowledge which the pupil has himself acquired- any problem which he has himself solved, becomes, by virtue of the conquest, much…

— Herbert Spencer

We must not forget that what I mean by the conquest of the world by spiritual thought is the sending out of the life-giving…

— Swami Vivekananda

If love is the quest, then marriage is the conquest

— Anonymous

Politics...You see, it depends on what kind of politics. What we did during my father's generation was a duty. And it was beautiful because…

— Indira Gandhi

Here's the reality. The image of a white Jesus has been used to justify enslavement, conquest, colonialism, the genocide of indigenous peoples. There are…

— Tim Wise