The State is a codification of relations of power at all levels across the social body.
The State is a conspiracy designed not only to exploit, but above all to corrupt its citizens.
The State is a cold monster, a nightmare, a separate organ of power, cut off from society, dividing along lines of those who exercise and those who submit.
The State is a committee of management which has no intrinsic authority beyond the ethical sanction bestowed on it by the consent of the citizens.
The State is a concept that serves as a 'scheme of intelligibility' for a whole group of already established institutions and realities.
The State is 'a resonance chamber' where institutions resemble one another. Is it any surprise that the school resembles the barracks which resembles the factory which all resemble the prison'.
The State is a 'divine and moral entity which alone is capable of bestowing all spiritual reality, a march of God on earth'.