Certain Quote by Gustav Landauer

The State is a condition, a certain relationship between human beings, a mode of behavior; we destroy it by contracting other relationships, by behaving…

— 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 professional apparatus that sets itself apart from the people and apart from the institutions that the people themselves create. It's…

— Murray Bookchin

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

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

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

A state is an association of similar persons whose aim is the best life possible. What is best is happiness, and to be happy…

— Aristotle

“State interference in social relations becomes, in one domain after another, superfluous, and then dies out of itself; the government of persons is replaced…

— Frederick Engels

The State is to make what is useful. The individual is to make what is beautiful.

— Oscar Wilde

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

Each State can have for enemies only other States, and not men; for between things disparate in nature there can be no real relation.

— Jean-Baptiste Rousseau