Direct Quote by Anonymous

The State is to make what is useful. The individual is to make what is beautiful.

— Oscar Wilde

The state is a social relationship; a certain way of people relating to one another. It can be destroyed by creating new social relationships;…

— Gustav Landauer

Politics and the affairs of State are dissociated from the orbit of the individual, and in so far as they cannot be repossessed as…

— John Carroll

The state is a means to an end. Its end lies in the preservation and advancement of a community of physically and psychically homogenous…

— Adolf Hitler

The State is only one of the forms assumed by society in the course of history. Why then make no distinction between what is…

— Peter Kropotkin

The state itself becomes more and more identified with the interests of those who run things than with the interests of the people in…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

“When a newly acquired State has been accustomed, as I have said, to live under its own laws and in freedom, there are three…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

There is no class of people so hard to manage in a state, as those whose intentions are honest, but whose consciences are bewitched.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.

— Frederic Bastiat

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

A private man, however successful in his own dealing, if his country perish is involved in her destruction; but if he be an unprosperous…

— Thucydides

An important part of what the state does is preserving its history.

— James R. Thompson