Famous quotes containing the word state:
“A state is not a state if it belongs to one man.”
—Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)
“We are at heart so profoundly anarchistic that the only form of state we can imagine living in is Utopian; and so cynical that the only Utopia we can believe in is authoritarian.”
—Lionel Trilling (1905–1975)