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Quote by Oscar Wilde
The State is to make what is useful. The individual is to make wha

The State is to make what is useful. The individual is to make what is beautiful. – Oscar Wilde

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He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about. – Oscar Wilde

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The State must follow, and not lead, the character and progress of the citizen. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion. – Henri Frederic Amiel

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The worth of a State, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it — a State which dwarfs its men, in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes — will find that with small men no great thing can really be accomplished. – John Stuart Mill

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Every 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. – Simone Weil

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