What does "While the state exists,There can be no freedom. When there is freedom, there will be no state" mean?
Posted on June 14th, 2010 by admin
I know the basic meaning but i don’t know the FULL and deep meaning 
Can someone please explain it to me really good, i have to write an essay on this on Macbeth. Can someone also give examples of how this quote is on Macbeth? Thanks!
It is a statement about anarchy, and it is wrong. It is only under a very limited "government by the consent of the governed" that we can have freedom–from the force imposed by people who are not otherwise stopped except by laws and by the force of a state.
Without such a limited government we have the "freedom" to be vigilantes seeking retribution because there is no state to seek justice for us. Whooops, I mean, we have NO freedom because we must spend our spare time protecting our families and our values and our valuables from predators and from the force they use against us. We would be back in a "state of nature" that nature never intended for Man. Nature gave Man a rational mind, and that is the reason that Patrick Henry, James Madison, and a few others would not sign the Constitution until the Ninth Amendment was added saying that we retained all the freedoms nature gave us, that just because the Constitution didn’t say we had this-or-that freedom, that we didn’t have it. We did, and the Ninth protects them. The Tenth gives us the right to use them.
June 14th, 2010 at 8:07 pm
Exactly what it says – state=no freedom & no state=freedom.
I will leave the essay up to you though. But things you might want to consider is other quotations i.e. criticisms of this belief as well as other ideas and values, etc. This is a very narrow perspective in my view as like seeing the world inside a matchbox! A statement such as this assumes that the world isn’t complex.
Maybe Google it to see more depth – there might be pages and pages of content on Wikipedia. Good luck.
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June 14th, 2010 at 8:13 pm
It is a statement about anarchy, and it is wrong. It is only under a very limited "government by the consent of the governed" that we can have freedom–from the force imposed by people who are not otherwise stopped except by laws and by the force of a state.
Without such a limited government we have the "freedom" to be vigilantes seeking retribution because there is no state to seek justice for us. Whooops, I mean, we have NO freedom because we must spend our spare time protecting our families and our values and our valuables from predators and from the force they use against us. We would be back in a "state of nature" that nature never intended for Man. Nature gave Man a rational mind, and that is the reason that Patrick Henry, James Madison, and a few others would not sign the Constitution until the Ninth Amendment was added saying that we retained all the freedoms nature gave us, that just because the Constitution didn’t say we had this-or-that freedom, that we didn’t have it. We did, and the Ninth protects them. The Tenth gives us the right to use them.
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June 14th, 2010 at 8:26 pm
You cannot be free and governed at the same time. To govern is to restrict freedom.
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