Appeals Quote by J. M. Coetzee

... the modern state masks itself in moral ideologies which obscure its actual conduct. One of the most compelling and insidious of these ideologies…

— Donald Livingston

And so, today, if the state can no longer appeal to the old moral principles that belong to the Christian tradition, it will be…

— Christopher Dawson

The essence of the modern state is that the universal be bound up with the complete freedom of its particular members and with private…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

The state dictates and coerces; religion teaches and persuades. The state enacts laws; religion gives commandments. The state is armed with physical force and…

— Moses Mendelssohn

“The state does not take a merely temporal regulatory role and leave salvation in the hands of the church; rather, the modern state seeks…

— James K.A. Smith

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

“The consequence of this, morally, is that the individual is of less significance than the state. The individual’s empirical, day-to-day interests are of a…

— Stephen R.C. Hicks

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

— Robert A. Heinlein

What modernity requires is not that you cease living according to your faith, but that you accept that others may differ and that therefore…

— Andrew Sullivan

The state can be a force for good. The Rule of law is absolutely essential to a good life. God has instituted government and…

— Dave Brat

“[...] the state is not immoral but amoral; half of it exists outside morality”

— Jacques Barzun

The state, frankly, could care less. Historically, the state has been able to use any religious point of view for its own ends. .…

— Peter McWilliams