Behavior Quote by Gustav Landauer

“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 a social relationship; a certain way of people relating to one another. It can be destroyed by creating new social relationships;…

— Gustav Landauer

We are the state, and we shall continue to be the state until we have created the institutions that form a real community and…

— Gustav Landauer

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 is a means to an end. Its end lies in the preservation and advancement of a community of physically and psychically homogenous…

— Adolf Hitler

In terms of morals there is no such thing as ‘state.’ Just men. Individuals. Each responsible for his own acts.

— Robert A. Heinlein

The state is essentially an apparatus of compulsion and coercion. The characteristic feature of its activities is to compel people through the application or…

— Ludwig von Mises

A state is not the same thing as a society, although the Greeks and Romans thought it was. A state is an organization of…

— Carroll Quigley

The State is not in itself an end, but is only a means towards human development.

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

The State is the curse of the individual... The State must go! That will be a revolution which will find me on its side.…

— Henrik Ibsen

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

States are more like people than they are like anything else: they exist by purpose, reason, suffering, and joy. And peace between states is…

— Roger Scruton