“The punishment of death is the war of a nation against a citizen, whose destruction it judges necessary, or useful to the general good.”— Cesare Beccaria
“The State is a vast slaughterhouse, and a graveyard, where all the living aspirations and forces of a country come to be slain and buried.”— Mikhail Bakunin
“The murder that is depicted as a horrible crime is repeated in cold blood, remorselessly.”— Cesare Beccaria
“Capitalism only triumphs when it becomes identified with the state, when it is the state.”— Fernand Braudel
“The state is a collectivity of people, and the individual is a component of that collectivity.”— Hideki Tojo
“The political class="highlight">State, ever the organ of the master class, is an executive committee of the master class.”— Daniel De Leon
“It is not possible to set theoretical limits to the power of the State to legislate against immorality.”— Patrick Devlin
“The State is not the representative of the interests of the whole of society, but only of the interests of the ruling classes.”— August Bebel
“We say the person in uniform is a pig, not a human being. And that's how we have to deal with them.”— Ulrike Meinhof