Action Quote by Aristotle

So we must lay it down that the association which is a state exists not for the purpose of living together but for the…

— 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

It is only to clear from history that states rarely keep faith with each other, save in so far (and so long) as their…

— B. H. Liddell Hart

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

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

— Frederic Bastiat

... the state is not absolute, and loyalty to the state cannot be absolute.

— Petra Kelly

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 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

If a relationship does not promote a state's legitimate interests, there is no reason a state should sanction it.

— Jesse Lee Peterson

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

— Aristotle

The cornerstone of what makes our commonwealth a wonderful place to live is all that we share in common, not the things that set…

— Ralph Northam

We understand hereby, that the family, the business, science, art and so forth are all social spheres, which do not owe their existence to…

— Abraham Kuyper