Absolutes Quote by Mary Astell

Sovereignty is as necessary as ever.

— Pauline Marois

The state exists at our expense, and we do not live at the expense of the state. For this reason we do not have…

— Ilkin Santak

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

We have said that the State must not absorb the individual or the family; both should be allowed free and untrammelled action so far…

— Pope Leo XIII

Inasmuch as the domestic household is antecedent, as well as in idea as in fact, the family must necessarily have rights and duties which…

— Pope Leo XIII

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

— Petra Kelly

Sovereignty and the right to rule cannot be conferred on anyone no matter who ... as a result of an academic discussion. Sovereignty is…

— Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

Sovereignty is not given, it is taken.

— Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

Just as the formation of the family is basic to the formation of the state, so the states themselves are the only units that…

— Leon Bourgeois

There are lots of nations in the world or national peoples who don't yet have states. They're inside someone else's state and they want…

— Michael Ignatieff

Of all the groups that sometimes claim to own your life, family is the hardest to defend your individual sovereignty from.

— L. Neil Smith

Without sovereignty, a nation cannot exist. Without borders, it can't be defined or protected.

— Geert Wilders