Administrative Quote by Emma Goldman

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

The first act by virtue of which the State really constitutes itself the representative of the whole of societythe taking possession of the means…

— Friedrich Engels

“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

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 collection of officials, different for difference purposes, drawing comfortable incomes so long as the status quo is preserved. The only…

— Bertrand Russell

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 not, as many political scientists would make it, an inanimate thing; it consists of people, human beings, each of whom operates…

— Frank Chodorov

The State is to make what is useful. The individual is to make what is beautiful.

— Oscar Wilde

“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 not an organism capable of bringing either moral or material improvements to the populace...but merely a vehicle of power for the…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

'State' can be a word that is a noun or a verb or an adverb - it's kind of why I chose that title.…

— Todd Rundgren