Air Quote by 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 essentially an apparatus of compulsion and coercion. The characteristic feature of its activities is to compel people through the application or…

— Ludwig von Mises

Having gathered all power to itself, [the State] has become the sole focus of all conflict, and it must construct totalitarian defences to match…

— Anthony de Jasay

Our idea is that a state is strong when the people are politically conscious. It is strong when the people know everything, can form…

— Vladimir Lenin

Those who give the first shock to a state are the first overwhelmed in its ruin; the fruits of public commotion are seldom enjoyed…

— Michel de Montaigne

The state is the most destructive institution human beings have ever devised - a fire that, at best, can be controlled for only a…

— Robert Higgs

A state of shock is what results when a gap opens up between events and our initial ability to explain them. When we find…

— Naomi Klein

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

“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 the union of the universal with the full freedom of the particular, and with the welfare of…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

'The State Within' demands a certain intelligence from its audience. It doesn't just wash over you - it asks for commitment. And that's a…

— Lennie James

Where I used to strive for movement and restlessness I now attempt to sense and express the complete total calm of objects and the…

— Lyonel Feininger