Civilized Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are the state, and we shall continue to be the state until we have created the institutions that form a real community and…

— Gustav Landauer

Whoever says State necessarily says domination, and, consequently, slavery; a State without slavery, open or concealed, is inconceivable: that is why we are enemies…

— Mikhail Bakunin

If there is a State, then there is domination, and in turn, there is slavery.

— Mikhail Bakunin

There is not only no free state which would now establish it, but there is no slave state, which, if it had had the…

— William H. Seward

The state is made for man, not man for the state.... That is to say, the state should be our servant and not we…

— Albert Einstein

The existence of the state is inseparable from the existence of slavery.

— Karl Marx

I think we must get rid of slavery or we must get rid of freedom.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The State is a condition, a certain relationship between human beings, a mode of behavior; we destroy it by contracting other relationships, by behaving…

— Gustav Landauer

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

If there is a State, there must be domination of one class by another and, as a result, slavery; the State without slavery is…

— Mikhail Bakunin

No more slave States; no slave Territories.

— Salmon P. Chase

Nor was civil society founded merely to preserve the lives of its members; but that they might live well: for otherwise a state might…

— Aristotle