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Thomas Hobbes quotesThe obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson quotesThe State must follow, and not lead, the character and progress of the citizen.
Oscar Wilde quotesThe State is to make what is useful. The individual is to make what is beautiful.
Simone Weil quotesEvery new development for the last three centuries has brought men closer to a state of affairs in which absolutely nothing would be recognized in the whole world as possessing a claim to obedience except the authority of the State. The majority of people in Europe obey nothing else.