T Quotes
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“The state has no religion for the simple reason that it has each and everyone.”
“The state has no wealth it hasn't stolen, and the state has no assets whatsoever, except those which individuals have created in the first place and the state has taken.”
“The state has not the right to monopolize education. Education is a legitimate form of private enterprise, subject indeed to a certain amount of government regulation, but there is notrhing in its nature that makes it a public or private monopoly. The reason is that the primary right to educate their children belongs to the parents. In understanding the work of education, the state is simply supplying the parents with facilities to fulfill their duty. If the parents have other facilities at their command, they have no obligation to use those the state provides. (p. 437)”
Source: Right And Reason: Ethics in Theory and Practice
“The state has physical power and uses it when necessary; the power of religion is love and beneficence”
Source: Jerusalem: Or on Religious Power and Judaism
“The state has typically been a device for producing affluence for a few at the expense of many.”
Source: For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto
“The State idea is not according to my heart. I cannot understand why it is needed. It is connected with narrow-minded and economic obstacles. I believe it is bad. I have always been against it.”
“The State in organising security should not stifle incentive, opportunity, responsibility, in establishing a national minimum it should leave room and encouragement for voluntary action by each individual to provide more than the minimum for himself and his family.”
“The state in the matter of drugs should not, any more than in the matter of sex, act as the secret agent for the agenda of the church.”
“The state in which the ideas existed before being made conscious is called by us repression, and we assert that the force which instituted the repression and maintains it is perceived as resistance during the work of analysis.”
Source: Major Works
“The state incurs debts for politics, war, and other higher causes and 'progress'. . . . The assumption is that the future will honour this relationship in perpetuity. The state has learned from the merchants and industrialists how to exploit credit; it defies the nation ever to let it go into bankruptcy. Alongside all swindlers the state now stands there as swindler-in-chief.”
Source: Judgements on History and Historians
“The State insists that, by thus quarantining the general reading public against books not too rugged for grown men and women in order to shield juvenile innocence, it is exercising its power to promote the general welfare. Surely this is to burn the house to roast the pig...The incidence of this enactment is to reduce the adult population of Michigan to reading only what is fit for children.”
“The state is a bankrupt institution. The only alternative to this bankrupt 'humanistic' system is a God-centered government.”
“The State is a collection of officials, different for difference purposes, drawing comfortable incomes so long as the status quo is preserved. The only alteration they are likely to desire in the status quo is an increase of bureaucracy and the power of bureaucrats.”
“The State is a condition, a certain relationship between human beings, a mode of behavior; we destroy it by contracting other relationships, by behaving differently toward one another....We are the state, and we shall continue to be the state until we have created the institutions that form a real community and society of men.”
“The state is a force incarnate. Worse, it is the silly parading of force. It never seeks to prevail by persuasion. Whenever it thrusts its finger into anything it does so in the most unfriendly way. Its essence is command and compulsion.”
“The State is a gang of thieves writ large - the most immoral, grasping and unscrupulous individuals in any society.”
“The state is a means to an end. Its end lies in the preservation and advancement of a community of physically and psychically homogenous creatures.”
Source: Mein Kampf
“The State is a professional apparatus that sets itself apart from the people and apart from the institutions that the people themselves create. It's a monopoly on violence that manages and institutionalizes social activities. The people are perfectly capable of managing themselves and creating their own institutions.”
“The state is a social relationship; a certain way of people relating to one another. It can be destroyed by creating new social relationships; ie, by people relating to one another differently.”
Source: Revolution and Other Writings: A Political Reader
“The State is a term for the legislative and administrative machinery whereby certain business of the people is transacted, and badly so.”
Source: Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader
“The state is a vast enterprise for declaring all sorts of things legal for itself that would be illegal for us.”
“The state is an organization of mere mortals who, by one dubious method or another, have been allowed to don the mantle of political legitimacy and to command obedience on pain of imprisonment even of those who never consented to the preposterous arrangement.”
“The state is and has been in history a source of disorder and chaos, and this problem gets worse the more the state grows.”
“The state is based on this contradiction. It is based on the contradiction between public and private life, between universal and particular interests. For this reason, the state must confine itself to formal, negative activities.”
Source: Early Writings
“The state is captive to vested interests.”
“The State is competent to assign duties and draw the line between good and evil only in its immediate sphere. Beyond the limits of things necessary for its well-being, it can only give indirect help to fight the battle of life by promoting the influences which prevail against temptation--religion, education, and the distribution of wealth.”
Source: The History of Freedom (and other Essays)
“The State is concentric, but the individual is eccentric.”
“The state is concerned with the promotion of outward righteousness arising from the individual being constrained to keep the law. The Gospel alters human nature, whereas the state merely restrains human greed and evil, having no positive power to alter human motivation.”
Source: Reformation Thought: An Introduction
“The state is controlling my destiny and my penis.”
Source: Why I'm Making It Legal for Your 18 Year Old Daughter to Get In Bed with a Complete Stranger for Only 500 Bucks: A Short Essay from a Pro Se Litigant who is Challenging the Utah Brothel Bans
“The state is essentially an apparatus of compulsion and coercion. The characteristic feature of its activities is to compel people through the application or the threat of force to behave otherwise than they would like to behave.”
Source: Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War
“The state is facing a unique and extraordinary set of challenges and opportunities that demand the involvement of all of us to address them. It's time for everyone to pull together to improve California's competitiveness.”
“The state is in danger of falling into disrepute due to the evidence of its inadequate resources.”
“The state is made for man, not man for the state.... That is to say, the state should be our servant and not we its slaves”
Source: The World As I See It
“The State is made for Mankind, not mankind for the state”
“The state is needed and exists because of stopping violence and exploitation in general terms.”
Source: Destiny of Liberty
“The state is never so efficient as when it wants money.”
Source: You've had your time: being the second part of the confessions of Anthony Burgess
“The state is not abolished, it withers away.”
“The state is not an organism capable of bringing either moral or material improvements to the populace...but merely a vehicle of power for the men and party in power.”
“The state is not competent in artistic matters... When the state leaves us free, it will have carried out its duty.”
“The state is not entitled to your labor or the fruits of your labor. You are not government property.”
“The State is not force alone. It depends upon the credulity of man quite as much as upon his docility. Its aim is not merely to make him obey, but also to make him want to obey.”
Source: Minority Report
“The State is not God. It has no right to take away that which it cannot give back, if it should so desire.”
Source: The Bet
“The State is not in itself an end, but is only a means towards human development.”
Source: The Sphere and Duties of Government
“The State is not the nation, and the State can be modified and even abolished in its present form, without harming the nation. On the contrary, with the passing of the dominance of the State, the genuine life-enhancing forces of the nation will be liberated.”
Source: Untimely Papers
“The State is not, as many political scientists would make it, an inanimate thing; it consists of people, human beings, each of whom operates under an inner compulsion to get the most out of life with the least expenditure of labor.”
Source: The Rise & Fall of Society
“The state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another - no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy.”
“The state is now more involved than it ever has been in the raising of children. And children are now more neglected, more abused and more mistreated than they have been in our time. This is not a coincidence. This is not a coincidence. And with all due respect, I am here to tell you it does not take a village to raise a child. It takes a family to raise a child.”
“The State is only one of the forms assumed by society in the course of history. Why then make no distinction between what is permanent and what is accidental?”
“The state is or can be master of money, but in a free society it is master of very little else.”
“The state is out of control, the state is on a spending binge, the state has to stop putting itself in a hole thats getting deeper and deeper and deeper.”