Caste Quote by Murray Rothbard

The State provides a legal, orderly, systematic channel for predation on the property of the producers.

— Murray Rothbard

“The state, rather, is a parasitic institution that lives off the wealth of its subjects, concealing its anti-social, predatory nature beneath a public-interest veneer.”

— Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr

Like all predatory or parasitic institutions, the state's first instinct is that of self-preservati on. All its enterprises are directed first towards preserving its…

— Albert J. Nock

The state is essentially an apparatus of compulsion and coercion. The characteristic feature of its activities is to compel people through the application or…

— Ludwig von Mises

“When a newly acquired State has been accustomed, as I have said, to live under its own laws and in freedom, there are three…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

In the nature of things, those who have no property and see their neighbors possess much more than they think them to need, cannot…

— Daniel Webster

The state is therefore everyone; the rules within the state are laws which safeguard the welfare of all and which must originate from the…

— Georg Buchner

The State exists simply to promote and to protect the ordinary happiness of human beings in this life. A husband and wife chatting over…

— C. S. Lewis

“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 government should cultivate the view also among the propertyless classes of the population, those who are the most numerous and the least educated,…

— Otto von Bismarck

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

Governing a large state is like boiling a small fish.

— Laozi