“What really constitutes a state is a matter of trained intelligence, not a matter of ‘the people.'” -Hegel
“Everything within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state,” -Mussolini
“The worth of the State, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.” -John Stuart Mill
“The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under contract.” -Lippmann
“The State is the coldest of all cold monsters, and coldly it tells lies: ‘I, the State, am the people’.” -Nietzsche
“The modern state, 𝙣𝙤 𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙬𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙞𝙩𝙨 𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙢, is essentially a capitalist machine — the state of the capitalists, the ideal personification of the total national capital.” -Engels
“Once the running of a state involves a permanent and massive shortage of historical knowledge, that state can no longer be led strategically.” -Debord
“The organizations of this individual freedom were merely the knives with which anti-individual forces shredded the Leviathan and distributed its flesh amongst themselves.” -Schmitt
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