Bases Quote by Carroll Quigley

A state is not a mere society, having a common place, established for the prevention of mutual crime and for the sake of exchange.…

— Aristotle

There is such a thing as society. It's just not the same thing as the state.

— David Cameron

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 professional apparatus that sets itself apart from the people and apart from the institutions that the people themselves create. It's…

— Murray Bookchin

We should distinguish at this point between "government" and "state" ... A government is the consensual organization by which we adjudicate disputes, defend our…

— David Boaz

“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 is that organization in society which attempts to maintain a monopoly of the use of force and violence in a given territorial…

— Murray Rothbard

In terms of morals there is no such thing as ‘state.’ Just men. Individuals. Each responsible for his own acts.

— Robert A. Heinlein

In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.

— Anonymous

State is the nation socially organized.

— Antonio de Oliveira Salazar

The state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another - no less so in a democratic republic than in…

— Friedrich Engels

The State did not originate in any form of social agreement, or with any disinterested view of promoting order and justice. Far otherwise. The…

— Albert J. Nock