Quotes About State

In reality the state is nothing but a machine for the oppression of one class by another, and indeed in the democratic republic no less than in the monarchy.

we shall move on to a break with these traitors to socialism and shall fight for the complete destruction of the old state machine in order that the armed proletariat itself should become the government.

The distortion and shelving of the question of the relation of the proletarian revolution to the state could not help but play an immense role at a time when states, each with its military apparatus reinforced as a result of imperialist competition, have been turned into military monsters which are exterminating millions of people in order to decide the dispute as to whether England or Germany – this or that centre of finance capital – is to rule the world.

The replacement of the bourgeois state by the proletarian state is impossible without a violent revolution. The eradication of the proletarian state, i.e. the eradication of the state as such, is impossible except through the process of 'withering away'.

Our society must understand that a minority--a certain category of people-- must be paid very well by the state, so that they can secure the interests of the majority. When will we finally begin to understand this? Our people aren't stupid. It's just that it hasn't been explained the right way.

Les bolcheviks, une fois consolidé et légalisé leur pouvoir, en tant que socialistes étatistes qui croient en la direction centralisée et autoritaire, commenceront à diriger la vie du pays et du peuple du sommet. […] Les bolcheviks développeront une autorité politique et un appareil d'État qui écraseront toute opposition avec une poigne de fer. »

It is understood that when we speak of history we do not allude to the unspeakable trash contained in public school text-books (which in general resemble a cellar junk-shop of chronologies, epaulettes, bad drawings, and silly tales, and are a striking instance of the corrupting influence of State management of education, by which the mediocre, nay the absolutely empty, is made to survive)….

Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say.

The commonest ivory tower is that of the average man, the state of passivity towards experience.

artificial security of the state and all its conventions and institutions

All I have is a voice to undo the folded lie, the romantic lie in the brain of the sensual man-in-the-street and the lie of Authority whose buildings grope the sky: There is no such thing as the State and no one exists alone; Hunger allows no choice to the citizen or the police; We must love one another or die.

A well-designed welfare state can actually encourage people to take chances with their jobs and be more, not less, open to changes.

Thare is no chance of hurrying bussiness here like in the legeslature of a State thare is such a desposition here to Show Eloquence that this will be a long Session and do no good.

For the complete extinction of the state, complete Communism is necessary.

From my perspective, the state has to assume responsibility for the integrity of international communications.

I want to help clean up the state that is so sorry today of journalism. And I have a communications degree.

It is evident that not all people that have the confidence of the prime minister are the same ones that have the confidence of the head of state.

To restore and keep the public's confidence in the integrity of their government, state government and its officials must be open, honest and transparent.

If a murder is committed privately it is considered a crime. But if it happens with the authority of the state, they call it courage.

Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through... whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.

One of the greatest challenges in collecting child support is that deadbeat dads move from job to job and state to state. it's hard to keep track of them.

Dad built houses and when they were sold, he moved on to a new town, so I know a lot about my native state.

Where the sole employer is the state, [opposition] means death by slow starvation.

[I]f we assume a liberty interest but nevertheless say that, even assuming a liberty interest, a state can prohibit it entirely, that would be rather a conundrum.