Enemy Quote by Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

War is then not a relationship between one man and another, but a relationship between one State and another, in which individuals are enemies…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

War then, is a relation - not between man and man but between state and state and individuals are enemies only accidentally not as…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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

— Sophocles

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

— Robert A. Heinlein

If there is a State, there must be domination of one class by another and, as a result, slavery; the State without slavery is…

— Mikhail Bakunin

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

— Plato

Man is not made for the State but the State for man and it derives its just powers only from the consent of the…

— Thomas Jefferson

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

The State has no more existence than gods and devils have. They are equally the reflex and creation of man, for man, the individual,…

— Emma Goldman

The state is a social relationship; a certain way of people relating to one another. It can be destroyed by creating new social relationships;…

— Gustav Landauer

Whoever says State necessarily says domination, and, consequently, slavery; a State without slavery, open or concealed, is inconceivable: that is why we are enemies…

— Mikhail Bakunin

With many sovereign states, with no system of law enforceable among them, with each state judging its grievances and ambitions according to the dictates…

— Kenneth Waltz