400 Quotes About State

The origins of the Mutawaeen therefore were never to be an anti-Western mine-sweeping tool, rather a means of policing the state for the security of the precarious monarchy that had conquered it.

To be an anarchist only means that you believe that aggression is not justified, and that states necessarily employ aggression. And, therefore, that states, and the aggression they necessarily employ, are unjustified.

К сожалению, Варвара Андреевна, государство - это не д-дом, а скорее дерево. Его не строят, оно растет само, подчиняясь закону природы, и дело это долгое. Тут не каменщик, т-тут садовник нужен. (Б. Акунин, Турецкий гамбит, с. 80)

...what we are looking for is the appearance of political units persisting in time and fixed in space, the development of permanent, impersonal institutions, agreement on the need for authority which can give final judgments and acceptance of the idea that this authority should receive the basic loyalty of its subjects.

What the State can usefully do is to make itself a central depository, and active circulator and diffuser, of the experience resulting from many trials. Its business is to enable each experimentalist to benefit by the experiments of others, instead of tolerating no experiments but its own.

On the surface," said the deep voice of Andrew Ryan booming from hidden speakers, "The farmer tills the soil, trading the strength off his arm for a land of his own. But the parasites say, 'No! What is yours is ours! We are the state; we are God; we demand our share!

Tamamen medenileşmiş insanların devlet sistemlerinin sınırları içinde yaşadığı ve öyle olmayanların (elbette bunlar Avrupa dışında yaşıyordu) aşağı derecedeki "insanımsı(!)" olan "kabile" toplumlarına ait oldukları kanaati, bütün Avrupa'da yaygındı. Bu inanç çeşitli biçimler aldı; hatta onlardan biri olan Hegelci düşünce o kadar ileri gitti ki adeta devleti mitleştirdi ve ona dört bir yana sirayet eden ahlaki bir yapı vasfı kazandırdı.

You understand nothing of Gnosticism if you have failed to grasp that it is a positive liberty undertaking that seeks to change the world, and every person in it. It is the opposite of anti-State negative liberty movements such as libertarianism, conservatism and anarchism. These movements despise experts and knowledge. They are about “freedom”, not about knowledge. The aim of all modern Gnostic movements is to use the power of the State to immanentize the eschaton.

Se colocarmos o Estado para administrar o Deserto do Saara, em 5 anos faltará areia.