Activity Quote by Ludwig von Mises

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 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 State is a professional apparatus that sets itself apart from the people and apart from the institutions that the people themselves create. It's…

— Murray Bookchin

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

— H. L. Mencken

But which is the State's essential function, aggression or defence, few seem to know or care.

— Benjamin Tucker

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

— Ai Weiwei

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

“All controlling behavior is a contractive reaction and misuse of power exacted to make another fulfill your conscious and unconscious needs. People who control…

— Markus William Kasunich

“The State is that organization in society which attempts to maintain a monopoly of the use of force and violence in a given territorial…

— Murray Rothbard

The state is a social relationship; a certain way of people relating to one another. It can be destroyed by creating new social relationships;…

— Gustav Landauer

For, in order to turn the individual into a function of the State, his dependence on anything beside the State must be taken from…

— Carl Jung

In terms of morals there is no such thing as ‘state.’ Just men. Individuals. Each responsible for his own acts.

— Robert A. Heinlein