Function Quote by Immanuel Kant

A state that denies its citizens their basic rights becomes a danger to its neighbors as well: internal arbitrary rule will be reflected in…

— Vaclav Havel

The State is the absolute reality and the individual himself has objective existence, truth and morality only in his capacity as a member of…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Once the state is looked upon as the source of rights, rather than their bound protector, freedom becomes conditional on the pleasure of the…

— Mary McCarthy

True freedom requires the rule of law and justice, and a judicial system in which the rights of some are not secured by the…

— Jonathan Sacks

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

To the rulers of the state then, if to any, it belongs of right to use falsehood, to deceive either enemies or their own…

— Plato

“a man can be human only under human conditions.” The purpose of the state is to preserve these conditions, so that its citizens need…

— Timothy Snyder

The state tends to expand in proportion to its means of existence and to live beyond its means, and these are, in the last…

— Frederic Bastiat

“PROPER ROLE OF THE STATE I believe that the proper role of the state is negative, not positive; defensive, not aggressive. It is to…

— G. Edward Griffin

While the State exists there can be no freedom; when there is freedom there will be no State.

— Vladimir Lenin

For, in order to turn the individual into a function of the State, his dependence on anything beside the State must be taken from…

— Carl Jung

When there is state there can be no freedom, but when there is freedom there will be no state.

— Vladimir Lenin