#2,973

In the modern state there now exist only two parties: citizens and bureaucracy.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 475

#2,962

Unlimited gullibility is required to be able to believe that any social condition can be improved in any other way than slowly, gradually, and involuntarily.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 473

#2,921

In a healthy society, the state is the organ of the ruling class; in a hunchbacked society, the state is the instrument of a bureaucratic class.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 466

#2,784

The state has not behaved with discretion and restraint except when it has been watched by rich bourgeoisies.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 447

#2,759

Neither a declaration of human rights, nor the proclamation of a constitution, nor an appeal to natural law, protects against the arbitrary power of the state.
The only barrier to despotism is customary law.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 443

#2,698

Asking the state to do what only society should do is the error of the left.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 434

#2,497

The separation of Church and State can suit the Church, but it is disastrous for the State because it delivers it over to pure Machiavellianism.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 402

#2,327

In a world of sovereign states every doctrine, no matter how universal, is eventually turned into the more or less official ideology of one of them.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 377

#1,945

The necessary and sufficient condition of despotism is the disappearance of every kind of social authority not conferred by the State.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 317

#1,812

The state will deserve respect again, when it again restricts itself to being simply the political profile of a constituted society.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 298

#1,535

The despotic decisions of the modern state are, in the end, made by an anonymous, subordinate, pusillanimous bureaucrat, who is probably also a cuckold.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 257

#1,527

The modern state is the transformation of the apparatus which society developed for its defense into an autonomous organism which exploits it.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 256

#1,439

Revolution is progressivist and seeks the strengthening of the state; rebellion is reactionary and seeks its disappearance.
The revolutionary is a potential government official; the rebel is a reactionary in action.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 243

#1,425

Totalitarianism is the sinister fusion of religion and the state.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 241

#1,424

The state is totalitarian by its essence.
Total despotism is the form towards which it spontaneously tends.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 241

#1,411

It is not possible to hope for anything now that the State is the soul’s only recourse against its own chaos.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 239

#1,285

The modern state is a teacher who never grants his students a degree.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 222

#1,284

The more complex the functions which the state assumes, the more subordinate the bureaucrats on whom the citizen’s fortune depends.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 222

#1,273

When society is cast entirely in the mold of the state, the person vaporizes.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 220

#1,142

The city is disappearing while the entire world is becoming urbanized.
A city, in the West, was a person.
Today, overexpansion and state centralism are disintegrating it into a mere inanimate heap of housing.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 201