Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else

The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.

Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state wants to live at the expense of everyone.

The state is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else.

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.

Sometimes the law defends plunder and participates in it. Sometimes the law places the whole apparatus of judges, police, prisons and gendarmes at the service of the plunderers, and treats the victim - when he defends himself - as a criminal.