23 Quotes About The-state

Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.

A person's life belongs to them, not to God, not to society, not to their parents, not to the State.

...the state is not what it once was. It is complicit in this new, shared global reality in which states deregulate to privatize gain and re-regulate to nationalize loss.

Systems of retributive justice work well as long as they are proportional. However, in complex societies, where the State is the arbiter of justice, proportionality may break down: offences created by the elite few become offences against the entire community.

The purpose of the state is really freedom.

[Paul] has no intention to instruct the Christian community about the task and responsibility of government. His entire concern is with the responsibility of the Christian community towards the State.

For the state is everything here. It nourishes the citizen, raises his children, cares for him, judges and condemns him; and of this state I am merely the first citizen.

The only way for the state to finance its operations is through the forcible expropriation of productive wealth from its citizens.

The old liberal rebelled against taxation without responsibility, the new liberal wants the taxation as a handout without responsibility.