Statism Quotes
A curated collection of the best quotes about Statism.
Top Quotes
“War breeds collectivism and statism.”
“War made the state, and the state made war.”
“Government is a disease masquerading as its own cure.”
“States originate in conquest and flourish through war.”
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“The greatest threat to a robust, autonomous civil society is the ever-growing Leviathan state.”
“We should never doubt that nationalizing the moral life is the first step toward totalitarianism.”
“In all that the people can individually do as well for themselves, government ought not to interfere.”
“A good government, no more than a bad one, has any right to live by robbery, murder, or any other crime.”
“To a large degree it has been and remains big businessmen who are the fountainheads of American statism.”
“The State is the great fiction through which everyone endeavours to live at the expense of everyone else.”
“Statism—the subordination of the individual to the state—leads inevitably to the most hideous oppression.”
“Statism needs war; a free country does not. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by production.”
“I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.”
“State is the name of the coldest of all cold monsters. Coldly it lies; and this lie slips from its mouth: 'I, the state, am the people’.”
“Etatism is the occupational disease of rulers, warriors, and civil servants. Governments become liberal only when forced to by the citizens.”
“…the State is in essence the result of the successes achieved by a band of brigands who superimpose themselves on small, distinct societies.”
“Statism is the Utopian ideal that just the right amount of violence used by just the right people in just the right direction can perfect society.”
“The State acquires power at the expense of freedom, and because of its insatiable lust for power it is incapable of giving up any of it. The State never abdicates.”
“The state, rather, is a parasitic institution that lives off the wealth of its subjects, concealing its anti-social, predatory nature beneath a public interest veneer.”