Advantage Quote by Albert J. Nock

Like all predatory or parasitic institutions, the state's first instinct is that of self-preservati on. All its enterprises are directed first towards preserving its…

— Albert J. Nock

A state arises,as I conceive,out of the needs of mankind;no one is self-sufficing,but all of us have many wants

— Plato

Things economic and social move by their own momentum and the ensuing situations compel individuals and groups to behave in certain ways whatever they…

— Joseph A. Schumpeter

Self-government relies, in the end, on the governing of the self.

— George W. Bush

Truthful movements spontaneously attract to themselves all manner of pure and disinterested help.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Since the State thrives on what it expropriates, the general decline in production that it induces by its avarice foretells its own doom. Its…

— Frank Chodorov

“Movements don’t emerge because everyone suddenly decides to face the same direction at once. They rely on social patterns that begin as the habits…

— Charles Duhigg

It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power, in number, in pride, in absolute dominion over the…

— Murray Rothbard

[A]lthough a republican government is slow to move, yet when once in motion, its momentum becomes irresistible.

— Thomas Jefferson

Never depend upon institutions or government to solve any problem. All social movements are founded by, guided by, motivated and seen through by the…

— Margaret Mead

The dynamo of our economic system is self-interest which may range from mere petty greed to admirable types of self-expression.

— Felix Frankfurter

Autonomous state actions will regularly take forms that attempt to reinforce the authority, political longevity, and social control of the state.

— Theda Skocpol