State Quotes
7915 quotes by 4312 authors
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I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.
— George Bernard Shaw
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The problem of values arises only when men try to fit together their need to be social animals with their need to be free men.…
— Jacob Bronowski
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Family - see Fascist State.
— Benito Mussolini
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One man should not be afraid of improving his posessions, lest they be taken away from him, or another deterred by high taxes from starting…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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A true libertarian supports free enterprise, opposes big business; supports local self-government, opposes the nation-state; supports the National Rifle Association, opposes the Pentagon.
— Edward Abbey
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Hence, in a state of nature, no man had any moral power to deprive another of his life, limbs, property, or liberty; nor the least…
— Alexander Hamilton
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The only distinction between freedom and slavery consists in this: In the former state a man is governed by the laws to which he has…
— Alexander Hamilton
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It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its…
— Albert J. Nock
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Taxation is not a method by which the community corporately provides itself with essential services, but a fund to be divided between different interests with…
— Neville Chamberlain
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Contact with the affairs of state is one of the most corrupting of the influences to which men are exposed.
— James F. Cooper
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All who love Liberty are enemies of the state.
— Karl Hess
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The immense and ever increasing sums which the state wrings from the people are never enough for it; it mortgages the income of future generations,…
— Peter Kropotkin
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You get the same order of criminality from any State to which you give power to exercise it; and whatever power you give the State…
— Albert J. Nock
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The object of the state is always the same: to limit the individual, to tame him, to subordinate him, to subjugate him.
— Max Stirner
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When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
— Tacitus
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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
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A man's state before God may always be measured by his prayers.
— J C Ryle
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Believers must persevere in prayer that they may see clearly their own pitiful state and understand the indwelling, working, and demands of the Holy Spirit.
— Watchman Nee
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To walk after the spirit a believer must inhibit his mind from revolving endlessly. If it turns too long around one topic, worries or grieves…
— Watchman Nee
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The ideally non-violent state will be an ordered anarchy.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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