Consensus Quote by Lester B. Pearson

“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

“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

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

The essence of the modern state is that the universal be bound up with the complete freedom of its particular members and with private…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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

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 only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.

— Aristotle

A state arises,as I conceive,out of the needs of mankind;no one is self-sufficing,but all of us have many wants

— Plato

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

Statesmen have to bend to the collective will of their peoples or be broken

— Anonymous

The State acquires power... and because of its insatiable lust for power it is incapable of giving up any of it. The State never…

— Frank Chodorov