400 Quotes About State

Society is a voluntary scheme of mutual benefit. The state is a compulsory scheme of mutual exploitation.

The modern man adores individualism as long as he has freedom, health, safety and wealth, but when he loses one of them turns to the state and to others demanding compensation and support.

The anarchist, as the born foe of authority, will be destroyed by it after damaging it more or less. The anarch, on the other hand, has appropriated authority; he is sovereign. He therefore behaves as a neutral power vis-à-vis state and society. He may like, dislike, or be indifferent to whatever occurs in them. That is what determines his conduct; he invests no emotional values.

Den Staat kümmert nicht, ob der Bürger lebt oder stirbt. Wichtig für den Staat und sein Archiv ist, ob der Bürger am Leben oder tot ist.

A successful state wishes happy poor.

The existence of a privileged class is absolutely necessary for the preservation of the state.

What a disaster the biologically toxic Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) has turned into for the State of Hawaii.

Mauna Kea summit workers are kept in a state of mal-acclimatization, as they are never fully acclimatized to near sea level or to the very high altitude mountain summit.

Encouragement of sedentarism is perhaps the oldest "state project," a project related to the second-oldest state project of taxation.