Consent Quote by Thomas Jefferson

The state was made for man, not man for state.

— Albert Einstein

The State is made for Mankind, not mankind for the state

— Albert Einstein

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

Man is not made for the state; the state is made for man. To deprive man of freedom is to relegate him to the…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

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

— Sophocles

No state, no government exists. What does in fact exist is a man, or a few men, in power over many men.

— Rose Wilder Lane

The rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God.

— Anonymous

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

— Robert A. Heinlein

Governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.

— Anonymous

The state is a creation of nature and man is by nature a political animal.

— Aristotle

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

— Will Durant

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

— Plato