Dread Quote by Charles Inglis

The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.

— Frederick Douglass

“Men are excessively ruthless and cruel not as a rule out of malice but from outraged righteousness. How much more is this true of…

— Paul Johnson

“When you have a strong conservative streak in your society,” Zeyk would say, “which detaches itself from the progressive streak, that’s when you get…

— Kim Stanley Robinson

History affords us many instances of the ruin of states, by the prosecution of measures ill suited to the temper and genius of their…

— Benjamin Franklin

An absolutely devastating ridicule of all that is false, primitive, and vicious in current American life: the abuses of power, hero worship, aimless violence,…

— Terry Southern

Pre-state societies were far more violent than our own.

— Steven Pinker

The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is…

— Leo Tolstoy

Rebellions of the belly are the worst.

— Francis Bacon

If you look at history you'll find that no state has been so plagued by its rulers as when power has fallen into the…

— Desiderius Erasmus

The state is and has been in history a source of disorder and chaos, and this problem gets worse the more the state grows.

— Llewellyn Rockwell

It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power, in number, in pride, in absolute dominion over the…

— Murray Rothbard

States are like people. They do not question the awful status quo until some dramatic event overturns the conventional and lax way of thinking.

— Victor Davis Hanson