Citizens Quote by Solon

“This effort [to establish racism, sexism and homophobia as morally heinous in law] also casts the law in particular and the state more generally…

— Wendy Brown

“To be injured means that one has the chance to reflect upon injury, to find out the mechanisms of its distribution, to find out…

— Judith Butler

The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.

— Frederic Bastiat

An injury to one is an injury to all.

— David C. Coates

Laws teach us to know when we commit injury and when we suffer it.

— Samuel Johnson

Laws provide against injury from others; but not from ourselves.

— Thomas Jefferson

Every State has the primary duty to protect its own population from grave and sustained violations of human rights, as well as from the…

— Pope Benedict XVI

The injury which may possibly be done by defeating a few good laws, will be amply compensated by the advantage of preventing a number…

— Alexander Hamilton

The State not seldom tolerates a comparatively great evil to keep out millions of lesser ills and inconveniences which otherwise would be inevitable and…

— Jean de la Bruyere

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

A private man, however successful in his own dealing, if his country perish is involved in her destruction; but if he be an unprosperous…

— Thucydides

“The state is for the recognition, endorsement, and protection of rights, which means creating the conditions under which rights can be recognized, endorsed, and…

— Timothy Snyder