People become less inhibited from wanting to change social…

Generally speaking, the less privileged groups in democratic society, as they become aware of their interests and their political power, will be found to…

— Gunnar Myrdal

I can't stress enough how strongly I am against any state intervention in a sovereign nation's affairs.

— Abby Martin

State intervention in economic production arises only when private initiative is lacking or insufficient, or when the political interests of the State are involved.…

— Benito Mussolini

This is the gravest danger that today threatens civilization: State intervention; the absorption of all spontaneous social effort by the State, that is to…

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

The timing & characteristics of state intervention affect not only organizational tactics and strategies, but the content and definition of interest itself... Some scholars…

— Theda Skocpol

The beneficial effect of state intervention, especially in the form of legislation, is direct, immediate, and so to speak, visible, while its evil effects…

— A. V. Dicey

[T]he mass-man sees in the State an anonymous power, and feeling himself, like it, anonymous, he believes that the State is something of his…

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

“The word that Kagan first used to describe high-reactive people was inhibited, and that’s exactly how I still feel at some dinner parties.”

— Susan Cain

You know, women are as promiscuous as men and yet, of course, people are inhibited from having an affair or a relationship because the…

— Lee Child

“[...] in a predatory capitalist economy, state intervention would be an absolute necessity to preserve human existence and to prevent the destruction of the…

— Noam Chomsky

The picture of the free market is necessarily one of harmony and mutual benefit; the picture of State intervention is one of caste conflict,…

— Murray Rothbard

Discussions of the economy, especially during times of crisis, are often framed in terms of lessons we supposedly learned during the Depression of the…

— Thomas Woods

“He did not foresee that in a predatory capitalist economy, state intervention would be an absolute necessity to preserve human existence and to prevent…

— Noam Chomsky

“A mere enumeration of government activity is evidence -- often the sole evidence offered -- of "inadequate" nongovernment institutions, whose "inability" to cope with…

— Thomas Sowell

Deeper state intervention in an economy means that bureaucratic waste, inefficiency and corruption are more likely to hold back growth.

— Ian Bremmer