Alterations Quote by Bertrand Russell

He who desires or attempts to reform the government of a state and wishes to have it accepted, must at least retain the semblance…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

The state, for a long period of time, has been undergoing a wrenching economic transformation. The reality is much grimmer than in other states.

— Herb Asher

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 diagnosis is clear, but changing the status quo has proven difficult, because often those who are elected do not govern, and those who…

— Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

The State is a term for the legislative and administrative machinery whereby certain business of the people is transacted, and badly so.

— Emma Goldman

Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.

— Laurence J. Peter

A state is nothing more than a reflection of its citizens; the more decent the citizens, the more decent the state.

— Ronald Reagan

The state itself becomes more and more identified with the interests of those who run things than with the interests of the people in…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

The State is to make what is useful. The individual is to make what is beautiful.

— Oscar Wilde

States are like people. They do not question the awful status quo until some dramatic event overturns the conventional and lax way of thinking.

— Victor Davis Hanson

The bureaucracy takes itself to be the ultimate purpose of the state

— Karl Marx

The natural tendency of the state is inflation. This statement will shock those accustomed to viewing the state as a committee of the whole…

— Murray Rothbard