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title: "1 Social Institution Quotes By Franz Oppenheimer"
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> [The State, completely in its genesis, essentially and almost completely during the first stages of its existence, is a social institution, forced by a victorious group of men on a defeated group, with the sole purpose of regulating the dominion…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/franz-oppenheimer/the-state-completely-in-its-genesis-essentially-and-almost-completely/)

Franz Oppenheimer

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## More by Franz Oppenheimer

> [I propose in the following discussion to call one's own labor, and the equivalent exchange of one's own labor for the labor of others,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/franz-oppenheimer/i-propose-in-the-following-discussion-to-call-one-s-own-labor-and-the/)

Franz Oppenheimer

> [I mean by Society, the totality of concepts of all purely natural relations and institutions between man and man.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/franz-oppenheimer/i-mean-by-society-the-totality-of-concepts-of-all-purely-natural/)

Franz Oppenheimer

> [The State, completely in its genesis, essentially and almost completely during the first stages of its existence, is a social institution, forced by a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/franz-oppenheimer/the-state-completely-in-its-genesis-essentially-and-almost-completely/)

Franz Oppenheimer

> [“The ruling class is opposed to the lower class—that is, ‘closed’ to the outside—insofar as it ‘excludes, restricts, or makes admission conditional.’ It denies…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/franz-oppenheimer/the-ruling-class-is-opposed-to-the-lower-class-that-is-closed-to-the/)

Franz Oppenheimer

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