The State is to make what is useful. The individual is to make what is beautiful. – Oscar Wilde
Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm. – Oscar Wilde
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The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention. – Oscar Wilde
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Children begin by loving their parents after a time they judge them rarely, if ever, do they forgive them. – Oscar Wilde
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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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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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While the State becomes inflated and hypertrophied in order to obtain a firm enough grip upon individuals, but without succeeding, the latter, without mutual relationships, tumble over one another like so many liquid molecules, encountering no central energy to retain, fix and organize them. – Emile Durkheim
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