Activity Quote by Karl Marx

The State is not, as many political scientists would make it, an inanimate thing; it consists of people, human beings, each of whom operates…

— Frank Chodorov

A state of affairs which leads to daily vexation is not the right state.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of…

— Albert J. Nock

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

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 State is a condition, a certain relationship between human beings, a mode of behaviour; we destroy it by contracting other relationships, by behaving…

— Gustav Landauer

The exercise of authority over the same area by two States is a contradiction.

— Benjamin Tucker

“The state tends to make man an instrument to serve its arbitrary ends, overlooking his individual purposes. And since man, in his essence, is…

— Wilhelm Von Humbolt 1792

The state is therefore everyone; the rules within the state are laws which safeguard the welfare of all and which must originate from the…

— Georg Buchner

The State is said by some to be a necessary evil; it must be made unnecessary.

— Benjamin Tucker

The state spends much time and effort persuading the public that it is not really what it is and that the consequences of its…

— Hans-Hermann Hoppe