400 Quotes About State

That frontier operated as a rough and ready homeostatic device; the more a state pressed its subjects, the fewer subjects it had. The frontier underwrote popular freedom.

For Art alone is great:The bust survives the state, The crown the potentate.

Democratic State exists to support freedom from unlawful coercion and to ensure that perpetrators of such unlawful coercion are coerced by law to conform to the law.

The vast majority of administrators, at all times and in all societies, are prone to commit grievous errors if left entirely to their own devices. Hence, they should not be left to their own devices, and should be allowed to govern only in consultation with the accredited representatives of the whole community, which is one of the classical lessons of history that no nation may neglect except at its own peril.

Democracy is the most veiled form of tyranny.

A million zeros joined together do not, unfortunately, add up to one. Ultimately everything depends on the quality of the individual, but our fatally shortsighted age thinks only in terms of large numbers and mass organizations, though one would think that the world had seen more than enough of what a well-disciplined mob can do in the hands of a single madman. Unfortunately, this realization does not seem to have penetrated very far - and our blindness is extremely dangerous.

The real triumph of the state occurs when its subjects refer to it as “we,” like football fans talking about the home team.

و هكذا فإن الفرد مهما صحت عنده العزيمة فإنه لن يتمكن بحال من الأحوال أن يصوغ حياته على نحو يتوافق مع تعاليم الإسلام دون أن يصوغ المجتمع الذي يعيش فيه شؤون حياته في الإطار الذي رسمه الإسلام

Hegel is not to be blamed for depicting the nature of the modern state as it is, but rather for presenting what is as the essence of the state. The claim that the rational is actual is contradicted precisely by an irrational actuality, which everywhere is the contrary of what it asserts and asserts the contrary of what it is.