Bad man Quote by Pittacus of Mytilene

States are doomed when they are unable to distinguish good men from bad.

— Antisthenes

It is seldom that statesmen have the option of choosing between a good and an evil.

— Charles Caleb Colton

The State is a poor, good beast who means the best: it means friendly.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.

— Plato

A state is not a state if it belongs to one man.

— Sophocles

A state is a perfect body of free men, united together to enjoy common rights and advantages.

— Hugo Grotius

Even if we are all doomed to live under the state, it doesn't follow that there is, or even can be, such a thing…

— Joseph Sobran

Whoever desires to found a state and give it laws, must start with assuming that all men are bad and ever ready to display…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

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

— Robert A. Heinlein

I believe in the state as a power for good.

— Amber Rudd

“States are built not on the ideals but on the nature of men.”

— Will Durant

States in the world are like individuals in the state of nature. They are neither perfectly good nor are they controlled by law.

— Kenneth Waltz