...unpretending Christian men, standing up here and there in the empire, with a conscience, affirming that the State was made for man, not man for the State, and, above and beyond all, believing in a spiritual God, whose idol could not be set up in the Parthenon...

...two views are: (1) the omnipotence and transcendent worth of government ; (2) the need of remembering that the State was made for man, not man for the State, and of setting due limits to the action of the latter. In writers like William of Ockham and Dante...

...chief postulate, marked in the records of ages, is the same to-day as it was in the pre-Socratic age; that the state was made for man, not man for the state; that personal rights are as inalienable as personality; that God can and will allow no one to rule...

...chief postulate, marked in the records of ages, is the same to-day as it was in the pre-Socratic age; that the state was made for man, not man for the state; that personal rights are as inalienable as personality; that God can and will allow no one to rule...

...adopting extreme Socialism. Benington, Arthur. (Journalist.) I am opposed to Socialism because I believe that the State was made for man, not man for the State. Because every one of the infinite number of projects of cialism tends to discourage individual effort...

...saw that though the need of control and discipline was necessary through the state, he yet believed that the state was made for man ; not man for the state. Its chief function he held was the preservation of such moral conditions as would enable men, simple...

...exaltation of the State as the absolute good, were to me unacceptable. I remained untouched in my belief that the State was made for man, not man for the State. Democracy, which I had previously assumed to be an unqualified blessing, began to appear under a less...