Affection Quote by Benjamin Franklin

“Finally, when the State close to ruin subsists only on an illusory and vain form, when the social bond is broken in all hearts,…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

In all well-attempered governments there is nothing which should be more jealously maintained than the spirit of obedience to law, more especially in small…

— Aristotle

“For these new states this curse bears the germs of a deadly sickness. For the nation-state cannot exist once its principle of equality before…

— Hannah Arendt

The ordaining of laws in favor of one part of the nation, to the prejudice and oppression of another, is certainly the most erroneous…

— Benjamin Franklin

If a state indicts good into their system and law then only good should come from it. Therefore if things are good there is…

— Anonymous

The ruin of a State is generally preceded by an universal degeneracy of manners and contempt of religion.

— Jonathan Swift

“Men are excessively ruthless and cruel not as a rule out of malice but from outraged righteousness. How much more is this true of…

— Paul Johnson

“So long as we have a law that is exploitable by individuals in power, it is imperative that every thinking human stands up to…

— Abhijit Naskar

History has shown us many times that if the state repressively forces the redistribution of wealth and social justice, it becomes dangerous both for…

— Rohini Nilekani

The whole track of history is marked with the ruin of empires which having been founded in injustice, or perpetuated by wrong, were ultimately…

— William Mackergo Taylor

A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual.

— Sigmund Freud

“Yet if states were destroyed, local institutions corrupted, and economic incentives directed towards murder, few of us would behave well.”

— Timothy Snyder