Dependence Quote by Carl Jung

The object of the state is always the same: to limit the individual, to tame him, to subordinate him, to subjugate him.

— Max Stirner

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

The function of the true state is to impose the minimum restrictions and safeguard the maximum liberties of the people, and it never regards…

— Immanuel Kant

In proportion as you give the state power to do things for you, you give it power to do things to you.

— Albert J. Nock

“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 proof that the state is a creation of nature and prior to the individual is that the individual, when isolated, is not self-sufficing.

— Aristotle

“a man can be human only under human conditions.” The purpose of the state is to preserve these conditions, so that its citizens need…

— Timothy Snyder

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 function of State coercion is to override individual coercion, and, of course, coercion exercised by any association of individuals within the State. It…

— Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse

Man..must necessarily be subject to the laws of his Creator, for he is entirely a dependent being..And, consequently, as man depends absolutely upon his…

— William Blackstone

“He who is subjected to a field of visibility, and who knows it, assumes responsibility for the constraints of power; he makes them play…

— Michel Foucault