Mikhail Bakunin
View AuthorPowerful states can only be sustained by crime. Small states are virtuous only because they are weak.
Mikhail Bakunin
View AuthorThe state is a historically temporary mechanism, a transitory form of society.
Jaime Luciano Balmes
View AuthorWoe to the people governed by a Power that must think of its own preservation!
Honoré de Balzac
View AuthorEquality may be a right, but there is no human power that can ever turn it into a fact.
Honoré de Balzac
View AuthorThe laws are like spiderwebs, through which the big flies pass freely and the small ones get entangled.
Honoré de Balzac
View AuthorBureaucracy is a gigantic machine operated by pygmies.
Honoré de Balzac
View AuthorHe who knows how to govern a woman knows how to govern a state.
Clive Barker
View AuthorThe television is the first truly democratic system, the first accessible to everyone and completely governed by what people want. The terrible thing is precisely what people want.
Pío Baroja
View AuthorA community is always deceived better than an individual.
Pío Baroja
View AuthorBureaucracy in Latin countries seems to have been established to harass the public.
Pío Baroja
View AuthorIf you ever discover any law, be prudent and do not try to apply it. You have discovered the law... that is enough. Because if this law is physical and you try to apply it to a machine, you will stumble upon brute matter; and if it is a social law, you will stumble upon the brutality of men.
Pío Baroja
View AuthorThe law is inexorable, like dogs: it only barks at those who are poorly dressed.