The state is a social relationship; a certain way of people relating to one another. It can be destroyed by creating new social relationships; ie, by people relating to one another differently. Gustav Landauer More Quotes by Gustav Landauer More Quotes From Gustav Landauer You don’t know what order with freedom means! You only know what revolt against oppression is! You don’t know that the rod, discipline, violence, the state and government can only be sustained because of you and because of your lack of socially creative powers that develop order within liberty! Gustav Landauer government order mean The real transformation of society will come only in love, in work, and in stillness. Gustav Landauer transformation stillness real The State is a condition, a certain relationship between human beings, a mode of behavior; we destroy it by contracting other relationships, by behaving differently toward one another....We are the state, and we shall continue to be the state until we have created the institutions that form a real community and society of men. Gustav Landauer community real men Anarchism's lone objective is to reach a point at which the belligerence of some humans against humanity, in whatever form, comes to a halt. Gustav Landauer form halt humanity We are the state, and we shall continue to be the state until we have created the institutions that form a real community and society of men. Gustav Landauer community real men If I want to transform patriotism then I do not proceed in the slightest against the fine fact of the nation but against the mixing up of the nation and the state. Gustav Landauer mixing want facts Nothing can prevent the united consumer from working for themselves with the aid of mutual credit, from building factories, workshops, houses for themselves, from acquiring land; nothing — if only they have a will and begin. Gustav Landauer credit land house
