Roberto Cantalupo Quotes

The State acquires power... and because of its insatiable lust for power it is incapable of giving up any of it. The State never abdicates.

Reduced to its lowest terms, the great struggle which now rocks the whole earth more and more takes on the character of a struggle of the individual versus the state.

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.

Citizenship is basic to all other claims which individuals make on the state, or the state makes upon them.

Advocating the expansion of the powers of the state is treason to mankind

It [the State] has taken on a vast mass of new duties and responsibilities; it has spread out its powers until they penetrate to every act of the citizen, however secret; it has begun to throw around its operations the high dignity and impeccability of a State religion; its agents become a separate and superior caste, with authority to bind and loose, and their thumbs in every pot. But it still remains, as it was in the beginning, the common enemy of all well-disposed, industrious and decent men.

The bigger the State, the smaller the citizen

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

If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.

A state of war is not a blank check... when it comes to the rights of the Nation's citizens.

The keystone of the Fascist doctrine is its conception of the State, of its essence, its functions, and its aims. For Fascism the State is absolute, individuals and groups relative.

Ask not what you can do for your country; ask what your government is doing to you.

The public power of all society is above every soul contained in the same society.

In this country, my Lords, ... the individual subject ... has nothing to do with the laws but to obey them.

Extensive and organized power over large populations does not suffice to make a nation

The individual is greater than the state.

The absorption of all social functions by the State necessarily favored the development of an unbridled, narrow-minded, individualism.

Whether the state be Marxist or capitalist, it makes no difference. The dominant ideology is that of sovereignty.

Communist countries consider all people, even their own, as secondary and only of value as they serve the state. Nevertheless those of us who live in democratic countries are always shocked and angered by the apparent indifference that a Communist regime has for what happens to individuals

In the East [Russia] the state was everything. Civil society was primordial and gelatinous. In the West there was a proper relationship between the state and civil society.

Everything within the State. Nothing outside the State. Nothing against the State.

The state operates in a legal vacuum. There exists no contract between the state and its citizens.

Communist regimes were not some unfortunate aberration, some historical deviation from a socialist ideal. They were the ultimate expression, unconstrained by democratic and electoral pressures, of what socialism is all about. ... In short, the state [is] everything and the individual nothing.

The State practices "violence," the individual must not do so. The state's behavior is violence, and it calls its violence "law"; that of the individual, "crime".