Commitment Quote by Lennie James

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

Instead of safeguarding truth and honesty, the state then tends to become a major source of insincerity and mendacity.

— Hans F. Sennholz

'State' can be a word that is a noun or a verb or an adverb - it's kind of why I chose that title.…

— Todd Rundgren

The state has, in order to control us, introduced division into our thinking, so that we come to distrust others and look to the…

— Butler Shaffer

The State has always one purpose: to limit, control, subordinate the individual and subject him to the general purpose Through its censorship, its supervision,…

— Max Stirner

Our idea is that a state is strong when the people are politically conscious. It is strong when the people know everything, can form…

— Vladimir Lenin

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

In the end, I think, the state's rigidity is a function of its own insecurity, its indecisiveness.

— Ai Weiwei

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

— Gustav Landauer

To desire a state is to have it.

— Neville Goddard

The State always stands for swindling, intrigue, and privilege, and cannot stand for anything else.

— Ignazio Silone

Perception of a state is not the state.

— M. John Harrison