Law Quote by Georg Buchner

A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed.

— Rene Descartes

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

We have said that the State must not absorb the individual or the family; both should be allowed free and untrammelled action so far…

— Pope Leo XIII

Thus, anybody who follows this nature and gives way its states will be led into quarrels and conflicts, and go against the conventions and…

— Anonymous

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

— Frederic Bastiat

States in the world are like individuals in the state of nature. They are neither perfectly good nor are they controlled by law.

— Kenneth Waltz

The State exists simply to promote and to protect the ordinary happiness of human beings in this life. A husband and wife chatting over…

— C. S. Lewis

The political body, therefore, is also a moral being which has a will; and this general will, which tends always to the conservation and…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

One thing is clear, everyone, no matter what their professional or material status, no matter what their influence on various state structures, must obey…

— Vladimir Putin

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

“For these new states this curse bears the germs of a deadly sickness. For the nation-state cannot exist once its principle of equality before…

— Hannah Arendt

When the entire administration of the state connives with the perpetrators of violence to thwart justice at every step, clearly there is no rule…

— Prashant Bhushan