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The State has always one purpose: to limit, control, subordinate the individual and subject him to the general purpose Through its censorship, its supervision,…

— Max Stirner

What we need is not more distrust and division. What we need now is acceptance.

— Tom Daschle

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

Instead of safeguarding truth and honesty, the state then tends to become a major source of insincerity and mendacity.

— Hans F. Sennholz

'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

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

“Every faction conditions its members to think and act a certain way. And most people do it. For most people, it's not hard to…

— Veronica Roth

“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 State idea is not according to my heart. I cannot understand why it is needed. It is connected with narrow-minded and economic obstacles.…

— Albert Einstein

We want a state wise in its contemplation - just in its actions - and moderate in the reach of government into our lives.

— Sonny Perdue

Ours is supposed to be a government in which classes and distinctions melt into a harmonious whole. Until we reach this ideal of government,…

— Timothy Thomas Fortune

If we really reflect and discriminate, we'll find that all things are created by our perception, that all states exist within the mind.

— Frederick Lenz