Entity Quote by Frederic Bastiat

Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state wants to live at the expense of everyone.

— Frederic Bastiat

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, 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 idea of the state is, or should be, a very limited, prescribed idea. The state looks after the defense of the realm, and…

— Tom Stoppard

The state is therefore everyone; the rules within the state are laws which safeguard the welfare of all and which must originate from the…

— Georg Buchner

Even if we are all doomed to live under the state, it doesn't follow that there is, or even can be, such a thing…

— Joseph Sobran

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

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.

— Frederic Bastiat

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

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

“But now I understand something more fully that I once only understood abstractly. I see how utterly ridiculous it is to think that the…

— Jeffrey Tucker

The State is the absolute reality and the individual himself has objective existence, truth and morality only in his capacity as a member of…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel