Infancy Quote by Anonymous

In the birth of societies it is the chiefs of states who give it its special character; and afterward it is this special character…

— Baron de Montesquieu

“despite the absence of a real state monopoly on violence, early states were much more formidable structures than chiefdoms. And everywhere they appear, they…

— David Christian

A state is not the same thing as a society, although the Greeks and Romans thought it was. A state is an organization of…

— Carroll Quigley

Therefore those governing the State ought primarily to devote themselves to the service of individual groups and of the whole commonwealth, and through the…

— Pope Leo XIII

The State is a professional apparatus that sets itself apart from the people and apart from the institutions that the people themselves create. It's…

— Murray Bookchin

“A general State educationis a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another: and as the mould in which it casts…

— Anonymous

Governments which have a regard to the common interest are constituted in accordance with strict principles of justice, and are therefore true forms; but…

— Aristotle

“The State is a condition, a certain relationship between human beings, a mode of behaviour; we destroy it by contracting other relationships, by behaving…

— Gustav Landauer

The essence of the modern state is that the universal be bound up with the complete freedom of its particular members and with private…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And as the…

— Frank Herbert

Just as the formation of the family is basic to the formation of the state, so the states themselves are the only units that…

— Leon Bourgeois

The State is a condition, a certain relationship between human beings, a mode of behavior; we destroy it by contracting other relationships, by behaving…

— Gustav Landauer