Modern State Quotes

17 quotes by 17 authors

The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. ... One might point out how the Renaissance was… — Oscar Wilde
I am against revolution and am proud of it. Democracy cannot be created through revolutions. The most important dichotomy that I make for a society… — Akbar Ganji
The executive of the modern state is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie. — Karl Marx
A modern state is such a complex and interdependent fabric that it offers a target highly sensitive to a sudden and overwhelming blow from the… — B. H. Liddell Hart
The modern state does not comprehend how anyone can be guided by something other than itself. In its eyes pluralism is treason. — Richard M. Weaver
The modern state no longer has anything but rights; it does not recognize duties any more. — Georges Bernanos
Though the academic authorities are actually proud of conducting everything by means of Examinations, they seldom indulge in what religious people used to descibe as… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
... the modern state masks itself in moral ideologies which obscure its actual conduct. One of the most compelling and insidious of these ideologies is… — Donald Livingston
. . . the example given by the Nazi regime as to the ability of a modern state to destroy human lives with the same… — Omer Bartov
A basic principal of modern state capitalism is that costs and risks are socialized to the extent possible, while profit is privatized. — Noam Chomsky
The essence of the modern state is that the universal be bound up with the complete freedom of its particular members and with private well-being,… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
My second job has been to try to use my power to create institutions of a modern state that could enter the European Union, and… — Paddy Ashdown
The way Japan had tried to build up a modern state modelled on the West was cataclysmic. — Kenzaburo Oe
Our country, like every modern state, needs profound democratic reforms. It needs political and ideological pluralism, a mixed economy and protection of human rights and… — Andrei Sakharov
We have educated ourselves into a world from which wonder, and he fear and dread and splendor and freedom of wonder have been banished. Of… — Robertson Davies
In the ancient world, taxes were paid in kind: landowners paid in crops or livestock; the landless paid with their labor. Taxing trade made medieval… — Jill Lepore
Initially, before the modern state of Iraq was created, there were three separate provinces here: a Shiite in the south, a largely Sunni one in… — Richard Engel

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