Arthur Schopenhauer:

The state is nothing but a large-scale institution for the protection of property.

— Arthur Schopenhauer Modern

Pessimist philosophy

Parerga and Paralipomena, Vol. II, Chapter 13, 'On Ethics'

1851

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