Activity Quote by Albert J. Nock

No other organization rouses anything like the loyalty aroused by the national State. And the chief activity of the State is preparation for large-scale…

— Bertrand Russell

As Dr. Sigmund Freud has observed, it can not even be said that the State has ever shown any disposition to suppress crime, but…

— Albert J. Nock

“judicial system has no tradition of researching the effectiveness of its punishments.”

— D.F. Swaab

“We may test the hypothesis that the State is largely interested in protecting itself rather than its subjects by asking: which category of crimes…

— Murray N. Rothbard

Without the reform of the justice system, there is no possibility of building a just state.

— Andrzej Duda

The State always stands for swindling, intrigue, and privilege, and cannot stand for anything else.

— Ignazio Silone

The state is based on this contradiction. It is based on the contradiction between public and private life, between universal and particular interests. For…

— Karl Marx

Perception of a state is not the state.

— M. John Harrison

History is no criminal court

— Leopold von Ranke

The state within a state is hiding mostly in plain sight,

— Mike Lofgren

“The state, rather, is a parasitic institution that lives off the wealth of its subjects, concealing its anti-social, predatory nature beneath a public-interest veneer.”

— Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr

The state has no wealth it hasn't stolen, and the state has no assets whatsoever, except those which individuals have created in the first…

— Andrew Joseph Galambos