What has always made the state a hell on earth has been precisely that man has tried to make it his heaven.

HOLDERIN, FRIEDRICH

[U]topians...weave dreams about the perfect state. They do not realize that the state, the social apparatus of compulsion and coercion, is an institution to cope with human imperfection and that its essential function is to inflict punishment upon minorities in order to protect majorities against the detrimental consequences of certain actions.

MISES, LUDWIG VON, Human Action: A Treatise on Economics, The Epistemological Problems

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