400 Quotes About State

People endorse negative liberty - the individual free of the State - and hate positive liberty - the individual harnessed by the State.

A people, not a parchment, and not a Supreme Court, must be the Constitution. The people are the walking, talking, living Constitution. Positive liberty is all about enshrining the Constitution in the citizens themselves. They live and breathe it, and always know how to do right by it.

If we ask the state to guarantee our freedoms and ensure that justice is done, who guarantees that it does so?

WE WERE FREE. THEY GAVE US CITIZENSHIPहुकुमतों ने सारी ज़मीं आपस में बाँट ली, वलेहम भी किसी टुकड़े पे बैठे थे किसी के हो गए(विनीत)HUKUMATO.N NE SAARI ZAMEE.N AAPAS MEIN BAANT LI, VALEHUM BHEE KISI TUKDEY PEY BAITHE THEI, KISEE KE HO GAYETHE EMPIRES DIVIDED UP ALL THE EXISTING LAND AMONGST THEMSELVESI WAS ALSO SITTING SOMEPLACE AND A NATION BECAME MY OWNER

Nevertheless, there is a queer quality in that time [The Medieval Age]; which, while it was international was also internal and intimate. War, in the wide modern sense, is possible, not because more men disagree, but because more men agree.

Self-love is a zone prohibiting the entrances of painful solitude state and self inferiority complex.

The strength of a nation is its people, not its government.

Con i mezzi di comunicazione di massa su grandi distanze, l'isolamento della popolazione si è rivelato un mezzo di controllo molto efficace.

Anarchist advocacy of defensive organizations was born out of a historical recognition of the state as the most brutal and ruthless agent of terror, and the recognition that its use of violence depends almost entirely on the degree to which it feels challenged. Anarchists recognize that the state will do anything, no matter how vile, to maintain its own power.