“DEFINITION OF THE STATE”

“DEFINITION OF THE STATE”
Sheldon Richman’s definition of the state is spot-on accurate:

    The state is an organization of mere mortals who, by one dubious method or another, have been allowed to don the mantle of political legitimacy and to command obedience on pain of imprisonment even of those who never consented to the preposterous arrangement.

Zora Neale Hurston‘s 1942 autobiography, Dust Tracks On A Road:
    “There is no single face in nature, because every eye that looks upon it, sees it from its own angle.”