Bureaucracy Quote by Douglas Wilson

“The state, rather, is a parasitic institution that lives off the wealth of its subjects, concealing its anti-social, predatory nature beneath a public-interest veneer.”

— Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr

“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

“Yet if states were destroyed, local institutions corrupted, and economic incentives directed towards murder, few of us would behave well.”

— Timothy Snyder

“Because the state uses violence to achieve its ends, and there is no rational end to the use of violence, states grow until they…

— Stefan Molyneux

“The state is a voluntary association of individuals designed to serve their individual interests. The state is not a faceless villain. The state is…

— Robert Peate

“In other words, they appeal to the state for protection, but the state is precisely that from which they require protection. To be protected…

— Judith Butler

All nonstate threats to life, liberty, and property appear to be relatively petty and therefore can be dealt with. Only states can pose truly…

— Robert Higgs

The state is the institutional manifestation of violence.

— Javier Milei

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

“in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable…

— Thomas Paine

“Society in every state is a blessing, but Government even in its best state is but a necessary evil. . . .”

— Howard Zinn

Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an…

— Thomas Paine