Dissent Quote by Antonin Scalia

“When states are absent, rights—by any definition—are impossible to sustain. States are not structures to be taken for granted, exploited, or discarded, but are…

— Timothy Snyder

It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of…

— Albert J. Nock

Perhaps sensing the dismal failure of its efforts to show that 'established by the State' means 'established by the State or the Federal Government,'…

— Antonin Scalia

The idea of the state is, or should be, a very limited, prescribed idea. The state looks after the defense of the realm, and…

— Tom Stoppard

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

— Ignazio Silone

The modern state no longer has anything but rights; it does not recognize duties any more.

— Georges Bernanos

There are lots of nations in the world or national peoples who don't yet have states. They're inside someone else's state and they want…

— Michael Ignatieff

No state on earth can afford to allow several authorities to co-exist next to one another.

— Mahmoud Abbas

Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of man, that state is obsolete

— Rod Serling

A state is not a state if it belongs to one man.

— Sophocles

A territory cannot become a state or a nation unless Congress approves legislation and the president signs it.

— Pedro Pierluisi

If the State does not acquire supremacy over [vast private] enterprises, it becomes their puppet, and they become the real State.

— Bertrand Russell