Quote by Leonard Richardson

“When states are absent, rights—by any definition—are impossible to sustain. States are not structures to be taken for granted, exploited, or discarded, but are…

— Timothy Snyder

Perception of a state is not the state.

— M. John Harrison

No state more extensive than the minimal state can be justified.

— Robert Nozick

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

— Benjamin Tucker

'The State Within' demands a certain intelligence from its audience. It doesn't just wash over you - it asks for commitment. And that's a…

— Lennie James

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

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

... the state is not absolute, and loyalty to the state cannot be absolute.

— Petra Kelly

The state, it cannot too often be repeated, does nothing, and can give nothing, which it does not take from somebody.

— Henry George

The function of the true state is to impose the minimum restrictions and safeguard the maximum liberties of the people, and it never regards…

— Immanuel Kant

As the State is a soulless machine, it can never be weaned from violence to which it owes its very existence.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The State doesn't just want you to obey, it wants to make you WANT to obey.

— H. L. Mencken

There are only two states of being in the world of codependency - recovery and denial.

— Wendy Kaminer