Action Quote by Hans-Hermann Hoppe

It is not the opinions or the vices of private individuals that are harmful to the State, but rather the behavior of public figures.

— Marquis de Sade

The state is based on this contradiction. It is based on the contradiction between public and private life, between universal and particular interests. For…

— Karl Marx

I think you need a really strong businessperson running the state, a person who's used to turning negatives into positives, which is what happens…

— Mike Curb

Our politicians want to keep us in a negative state because they can easily manipulate us.

— Noel Edmonds

States are like people. They do not question the awful status quo until some dramatic event overturns the conventional and lax way of thinking.

— Victor Davis Hanson

The trouble with the social-democratic state is that, when government does too much, nobody else does much of anything.

— Mark Steyn

The state is not an organism capable of bringing either moral or material improvements to the populace...but merely a vehicle of power for the…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

The government is promoting bad behavior.

— Rick Santelli

The State is said by some to be a necessary evil; it must be made unnecessary.

— Benjamin Tucker

Our main conclusions about the state are that a minimal state, limited, to the narrow functions of protection against force, theft, fraud, enforcement of…

— Robert Nozick

While negativity is politically useful, it is also demoralizing unless it is accompanied - and to some extent overshadowed - by elevated and inspiring…

— John Podhoretz

The States separately have very inadequate ideas of the present danger. Party disputes and personal quarrels are the great business of the day, whilst…

— George Washington