400 Quotes About State

We're a government that believes in everybody having the illusion of free will.

The whole purpose of propaganda is to make the obvious seem obscure, or offensive

Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.

Well organized criminal group we call mafia, the best organized mafia we call the state.

To care deeply about a State that does not care about you is a tragedy. A tragedy I have come to embrace.

One day, this Establishment will fall. It will not do so on its own terms or of its own accord, but because it has been removed by a movement with a credible alternative that inspires. For those of us who want a different sort of society, it is surely time to get our act together.

For if there were a list of cosmic things that unite us, reader and writer, visible as it scrolled up into the distance, like the introduction to some epic science-fiction film, then shining brightly on that list would be the fact that we exist in a financial universe that is subject to massive gravitational pulls from states. States tug at us. States bend us. And, tirelessly, states seek to determine our orbits.

A nation discovers its truest dignity when it cherishes the dignity of those from whom it has not heard for a very long time.

The State in particular is turned into a quasi-animate personality from whom everything is expected. In reality it is only a camouflage for those individuals who know how to manipulate it.