Activity Quote by Mary Parker Follett

States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.

— Noam Chomsky

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

There is no pestilence in a state like a zeal for religion, independent of morality.

— Jeremy Bentham

States are not moral agents.

— Noam Chomsky

The state has not only the obligation to stay neutral in matters of religion but also to ensure that freedom of thought and conscience…

— Asma Jahangir

No moral system can rest solely on authority.

— A.J. Ayer

The Government of the United States possesses no power whatever over the question of religion.

— James Buchanan

The state has physical power and uses it when necessary; the power of religion is love and beneficence

— Moses Mendelssohn

No citizen enjoys genuine freedom of religious conviction until the state is indifferent to every form of religious outlook from Atheism to Zoroastrianism.

— Harold Laski

“First, societies lacking full religious liberty lack a critical restriction on state power. When citizens are free to have an ultimate commitment to something…

— Timothy Shah

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

I have long been settled in my own opinion that neither Philosophy, nor Religion, nor Morality, nor Wisdom, nor Interest, will ever govern nations…

— John Adams