Business Quote by John Kenneth Galbraith

For people who have no critical acumen, a state is a mythical entity, for those who think critically it is a rational fiction, created…

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

“The State has invariably shown a striking talent for the expansion of its powers beyond any limits that might be imposed upon it. Since…

— Murray N. Rothbard

Private enterprise is ceasing to be free enterprise.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

It is a fiction, a shade, a nonentity, but a reality for legal purposes. A corporation aggregate is only in abstracto—it is invisible, immortal,…

— Edward Coke

“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

If the State does not acquire supremacy over [vast private] enterprises, it becomes their puppet, and they become the real State.

— Bertrand Russell

It's true that private enterprise is extremely flexible, But its only good within very narrow limits. If private enterprise isn't held in an iron…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I don't know what that line is between fiction and non-fiction that other people have in their minds, but to me, when I'm writing,…

— Sheila Heti

The first act by virtue of which the State really constitutes itself the representative of the whole of societythe taking possession of the means…

— Friedrich Engels

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

State ownership! It leads only to absurd and monstrous conclusions; state ownership means state monopoly, concentrated in the hands of one party and its…

— Benito Mussolini

State is the nation socially organized.

— Antonio de Oliveira Salazar