Capable Quote by Niccolo Machiavelli

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

— Noam Chomsky

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

— Robert A. Heinlein

The state is a creation of nature and man is by nature a political animal.

— Aristotle

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 idea of the state is, or should be, a very limited, prescribed idea. The state looks after the defense of the realm, and…

— Tom Stoppard

A state is not a mere society, having a common place, established for the prevention of mutual crime and for the sake of exchange.…

— Aristotle

History has shown us many times that if the state repressively forces the redistribution of wealth and social justice, it becomes dangerous both for…

— Rohini Nilekani

“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

The state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another - no less so in a democratic republic than in…

— Friedrich Engels

The State, of course, is absolutely indispensable to the preservation of law and order, and the promotion of peace and social cooperation. What is…

— Henry Hazlitt

A state is nothing more than a reflection of its citizens; the more decent the citizens, the more decent the state.

— Ronald Reagan

States are not moral agents.

— Noam Chomsky