Compulsion Quote by Frank Chodorov

The state is based on this contradiction. It is based on the contradiction between public and private life, between universal and particular interests. For…

— Karl Marx

A state is not a mere society, having a common place, established for the prevention of mutual crime and for the sake of exchange.…

— Aristotle

Another strange notion pervading whole peoples is that the State has money of its own; and nowhere is this absurdity more firmly fixed than…

— Anonymous

There's a lack of ambition in politics in terms of what we expect from the government, what it means to have a state.

— Christine and the Queens

The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.

— Frederic Bastiat

It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of…

— Albert J. Nock

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 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, of course, is absolutely indispensable to the preservation of law and order, and the promotion of peace and social cooperation. What is…

— Henry Hazlitt

The state is an organization of mere mortals who, by one dubious method or another, have been allowed to don the mantle of political…

— Sheldon Richman

And as we are - the world is. That is, if we are greedy, envious, competitive, our society will be competitive, envious, greedy, which…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

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