Confinement Quote by Robert Higgs

We see an extensive program of dismantling state institutions... These are ingredients for catastrophe.

— Iyad Allawi

The most destructive thing governments do is divide people against each other, all in competition over the reins of the state.

— Anthony Gregory

The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.

— Ludwig von Mises

The sovereign state has in our times become a lethal danger to human civilization because technical developments enable it to employ an infinite number…

— Christian Lous Lange

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

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Because the state uses violence to achieve its ends, and there is no rational end to the use of violence, states grow until they…

— Stefan Molyneux

The State is not the nation, and the State can be modified and even abolished in its present form, without harming the nation. On…

— Randolph Bourne

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

“We are in the presence,” said Winston Churchill, “of a crime without a name.” Its perpetrators were human beings, operating with initiative and creativity…

— Timothy Snyder

Fire isn't always an element of destruction. Classical alchemical doctrine teaches that it also has dominion over another province: change.

— Jim Butcher

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

— Thomas Paine