Alive Quote by Sukarno

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.

— Aristotle

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

I was taught very early on that the state can be, and is, a liar and a murderer.

— Christopher Hitchens

I am dying, but the state remains.

— Louis XIV

“Not only may you not enter the state without certification: you are, in the eyes of the state, not dead until you are certified…

— J.M. Coetzee

Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of man, that state is obsolete

— Rod Serling

A state may well not survive its writers telling its people the truth

— Anonymous

It was only one life. What is one life in the affairs of a state?

— Benito Mussolini

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

— Sophocles

There is nothing so costly to the state as a ruined life

— Catherine Helen Spence

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