Government Evil Quotes

Society is produced by our wants and government by our wickedness….government in its best state is a necessary evil; in its worse state an intolerable one.

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one; for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries by a government, which we might expect in a country without government, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer.

Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best stage, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

I believe that all government is evil, in that all government must necessarily make war on liberty, and that the democratic government is at least as bad as any of the other forms.

Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil.

All government is an evil, but, of the two form's of that evil, democracy or monarchy, the sounder is monarchy; the more able to do its will, democracy.

Between the government which does evil and the people who accept it - there is a certain shameful solidarity.

the fateful equating of power with violence, of the political with government, and of government with a necessary evil has begun.

Above all we should not forget that government is an evil, a usurpation upon the private judgement and individual conscience of mankind.

That government is not a necessary good but an unavoidable evil.