Modern Quote by Georges Bernanos

If you want my opinion, I say that this is a state based on occupation, that has usurped the rights of others.

— Hassan Nasrallah

“When states are absent, rights—by any definition—are impossible to sustain. States are not structures to be taken for granted, exploited, or discarded, but are…

— Timothy Snyder

Where there are no rights, there are no duties.

— Anonymous

The state is not abolished, it withers away.

— Friedrich Engels

Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of man, that state is obsolete

— Rod Serling

Every state has an undoubted right to determine the status, or domestic and social condition, of the persons domiciled within its territory except insofar…

— Roger B. Taney

Every State is known by the rights it maintains.

— Harold Laski

No state or society can claim to have established human rights once and for all.

— Ai Weiwei

In speaking of natural rights, therefore, it is essential to remember that these alleged rights have no political force whatsoever, unless recognized and enforced…

— Charles Edward Merriam

The state exists at our expense, and we do not live at the expense of the state. For this reason we do not have…

— Ilkin Santak

A state of affairs which leads to daily vexation is not the right state.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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