Bits Quote by John Masefield

States, like men, have their growth, their manhood, their decrepitude, their decay.

— Walter Savage Landor

Whatever is flexible and living will tend to grow; whatever is rigid and blocked will wither and die.

— Laozi

There is not one state truly alive if it is not as if a cauldron burns and boils in its representative body, and if…

— Sukarno

The state is a means to an end. Its end lies in the preservation and advancement of a community of physically and psychically homogenous…

— Adolf Hitler

The State thrives on war - unless, of course, it is defeated and crushed - expands on it, glories in it.

— Murray Rothbard

The state is and has been in history a source of disorder and chaos, and this problem gets worse the more the state grows.

— Llewellyn Rockwell

Things which do not grow and change are dead things.

— Louise Erdrich

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

— Bertrand Russell

To the size of the state there is a limit, as there is to plants, animals and implements, for none of these retain their…

— Aristotle

States in the world are like individuals in the state of nature. They are neither perfectly good nor are they controlled by law.

— Kenneth Waltz

Perception of a state is not the state.

— M. John Harrison

The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.

— Aristotle