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Power Quotes by Albert J. Nock
- It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its…
- You get the same order of criminality from any State to which you give power to exercise it; and whatever power you give the State…
- The competition of social power with State power is always disadvantaged, since the State can arrange the terms of competition to suit itself, even to…
- The superficial distinctions of Fascism, Bolshevism, Hitlerism, are the concern of journalists and publicists; the serious student sees in them only one root-idea of a…
- It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its…
- 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 own…
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- The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better. — Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo