Civilized Quote by Walter Lippmann

A semi-civilized state of society, equally removed from the extremes of barbarity and of refinement, seems to be that particular meridian under which all…

— Charles Caleb Colton

“That little boys and girls should be tormented is what no one at all acquainted with human nature in a civilized state can deny.”

— Jane Austen

Politics is about power. It is about the power of the state. It is about the power of the state as applied to individuals,…

— Kevin Rudd

“The true enemy of this bunch was not State Power but Lack of Imagination.”

— Haruki Murakami

That Amendment requires the state to be a neutral in its relations with groups of religious believers and nonbelievers; it does not require the…

— Hugo Black

We have been living amidst one of the great revolutions of human history, and we hardly know it: the penetration of the State into…

— Joseph Sobran

Anarchism is surprisingly effective in solving actual problems largely because anarchists have thought a lot about solving actual problems on a micro level in…

— David Graeber

The seventeenth century is everywhere a time in which the state's power over everything individual increases, whether that power be in absolutist hands or…

— Jacob Burckhardt

I feel that if people investigate the emergence of government, of State power - if they examine the logic of State power historically, and…

— Murray Bookchin

I think our concept of revolution, in terms of getting the power to do things, is too focused on the state. We have a…

— Grace Lee Boggs

The sovereignty of the state as the power that protects the individual and that defines the mutual relationships among the visible spheres, rises high…

— Abraham Kuyper

"Don't you want to abolish state power?" Yes, we do, but not right now. We cannot do it yet. Why? Because imperialism still exists,…

— Mao Zedong