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The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the mas

The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.

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Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when

Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the laws of the State always change with them.

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In the twentieth century one of the most personal relationsh

In the twentieth century one of the most personal relationships to have developed is that of the person and the state. It's become a fact of life that governments have become very intimate with people, most always to their detriment.

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The State has but one face for me: that of the police. To my

The State has but one face for me: that of the police. To my eyes, all of the State's ministries have this single face, and I cannot imagine the ministry of culture other than as the police of culture, with its prefect and commissioners.

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The worth of a State, in the long run, is the worth of the i

The worth of a State, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it -- a State which dwarfs its men, in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes -- will find that with small men no great thing can really be accomplished.

John Stuart Mill

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Every new development for the last three centuries has broug

Every new development for the last three centuries has brought men closer to a state of affairs in which absolutely nothing would be recognized in the whole world as possessing a claim to obedience except the authority of the State. The majority of people in Europe obey nothing else.

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The State must follow, and not lead, the character and progr

The State must follow, and not lead, the character and progress of the citizen.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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There will never be a really free and enlightened State unti

There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly. I please myself with imagining a State at last which can afford to be just to all men, and to treat the individual with respect as a neighbor; which even would not think it inconsistent with its own repose if a few went to live aloof from it, not meddling with it, nor embraced by it, who fulfilled all the duties of neighbors and fellow-men. A State which bore this kind of fruit, and suffered it to drop off as fast as it ripened, would prepare the way for a still more perfect and glorious State, which also I have imagined, but not yet anywhere seen.

Henry David Thoreau

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If I were a dictator, religion and state would be separate.

If I were a dictator, religion and state would be separate. I swear by my religion. I will die for it. But it is my personal affair. The state has nothing to do with it. The state would look after your secular welfare, health, communications, foreign relations, currency and so on, but not your or my religion. That is everybody's personal concern!

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While the State becomes inflated and hypertrophied in order

While the State becomes inflated and hypertrophied in order to obtain a firm enough grip upon individuals, but without succeeding, the latter, without mutual relationships, tumble over one another like so many liquid molecules, encountering no central energy to retain, fix and organize them.

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A nation which expects to be ignorant and free, in a state o

A nation which expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, expects that which never was and never will be.

Thomas Jefferson

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If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.

If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.

Henri Frederic Amiel

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The state was made for man, not man for state.

The state was made for man, not man for state.

Albert Einstein

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The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the re

The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice.

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The State is to make what is useful. The individual is to ma

The State is to make what is useful. The individual is to make what is beautiful.

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Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals,

Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.

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The essence of the modern state is that the universal be bou

The essence of the modern state is that the universal be bound up with the complete freedom of its particular members and with private well-being, that thus the interests of family and civil society must concentrate themselves on the state. It is only when both these moments subsist in their strength that the state can be regarded as articulated and genuinely organized.

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As high as mind stands above nature, so high does the state

As high as mind stands above nature, so high does the state stand above physical life. Man must therefore venerate the state as a secular deity. The march of God in the world, that is what the State is.

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