Power Quote by Bertrand De Jouvenel

“We can understand an attempt to ignore power as being just for the right of the people when conditions demand it. It's a very…

— Slavoj Žižek

“The supreme law of the State is self-preservation at any cost. And since all States, ever since they came to exist upon the earth,…

— Mikhail Bakunin

“When states are absent, rights—by any definition—are impossible to sustain. States are not structures to be taken for granted, exploited, or discarded, but are…

— Timothy Snyder

A state that denies its citizens their basic rights becomes a danger to its neighbors as well: internal arbitrary rule will be reflected in…

— Vaclav Havel

“In other words, they appeal to the state for protection, but the state is precisely that from which they require protection. To be protected…

— Judith Butler

The State is not the nation, and the State can be modified and even abolished in its present form, without harming the nation. On…

— Randolph Bourne

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

“if our rights are not unalienable, if they don’t come from a source higher than ourselves, then they’re malleable at the will of the…

— Mark R. Levin

“Political liberty—that is, the ability of societies to rule themselves—does not depend only on the degree to which a society can mobilize opposition to…

— Francis Fukuyama

[In the case of] dangerous exercise of other powers, not granted by the said compact, the states, who are parties thereto, have the right,…

— James Madison

“While there remains such an idea as the right of each State to control its own local affairs,—an idea, by the way, more deeply…

— Frederick Douglass

Each state, so that it does not abridge the great fundamental rights belonging, under the Constitution, to all citizens, may grant or withhold such…

— Lyman Trumbull