Action Quote by Aristotle

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

There is such a thing as society. It's just not the same thing as the state.

— David Cameron

. . . Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship.

— Aristotle

The State exists simply to promote and to protect the ordinary happiness of human beings in this life. A husband and wife chatting over…

— C. S. Lewis

The State is not, as many political scientists would make it, an inanimate thing; it consists of people, human beings, each of whom operates…

— Frank Chodorov

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

The fundamental question of political philosophy, one that precedes questions about how the state should be organized, is whether there should be any state…

— Robert Nozick

In terms of morals there is no such thing as ‘state.’ Just men. Individuals. Each responsible for his own acts.

— Robert A. Heinlein

There's a lack of ambition in politics in terms of what we expect from the government, what it means to have a state.

— Christine and the Queens

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

People who live in states have as a rule never experienced the state of nature and vice-versa, and have no practical possibility of moving…

— Anthony de Jasay