Intrigue Quote by Ignazio Silone

A state is not a state if it belongs to one man.

— Sophocles

What constitutes a state? . . . . . . . Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and knowing, dare maintain.…

— William Scott, 1st Baron Stowell

“The state, rather, is a parasitic institution that lives off the wealth of its subjects, concealing its anti-social, predatory nature beneath a public-interest veneer.”

— Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr

The idea of the state is, or should be, a very limited, prescribed idea. The state looks after the defense of the realm, and…

— Tom Stoppard

States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.

— Plato

... the state is not absolute, and loyalty to the state cannot be absolute.

— Petra Kelly

Every state protects the privileges of the powerful.

— Colin Ward

The state itself becomes more and more identified with the interests of those who run things than with the interests of the people in…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

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

'State' can be a word that is a noun or a verb or an adverb - it's kind of why I chose that title.…

— Todd Rundgren

The state is an organization of mere mortals who, by one dubious method or another, have been allowed to don the mantle of political…

— Sheldon Richman

'The State Within' demands a certain intelligence from its audience. It doesn't just wash over you - it asks for commitment. And that's a…

— Lennie James