State Power Quotes

19 quotes by 14 authors

We have been living amidst one of the great revolutions of human history, and we hardly know it: the penetration of the State into every… — Joseph Sobran
The media want to maintain their intimate relation to state power. They want to get leaks, they want to get invited to the press conferences.… — Noam Chomsky
A state that denies its citizens their basic rights becomes a danger to its neighbors as well: internal arbitrary rule will be reflected in arbitrary… — Vaclav Havel
The French need a thrashing. If the Prussians win, the centralisation of the state power will be useful for the centralisation of the German working… — Karl Marx
We find two great gangs of political speculators, who alternately take possession of the state power and exploit it by the most corrupt ends --… — Friedrich Engels
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… — Albert J. Nock
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… — 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… — Albert J. Nock
Today the discredit of words is very great. Most of the time the media transmit lies. In the face of an intolerable world, words appear… — John Berger
Wartime always brings expansions of state power, together with erosions of moral and constitutional standards. — Joseph Sobran
The seventeenth century is everywhere a time in which the state's power over everything individual increases, whether that power be in absolutist hands or may… — Jacob Burckhardt
If the court strikes down the Defense of Marriage Act, is that a 'liberal' result enabling gay couples married in states where gay marriage is… — Jeff Greenfield
That Amendment requires the state to be a neutral in its relations with groups of religious believers and nonbelievers; it does not require the state… — Hugo Black
Russia needs a strong state power and must have it. But I am not calling for totalitarianism. — Vladimir Putin
The history of the twentieth century was dominated by the struggle against totalitarian systems of state power. The twenty-first will no doubt be marked by… — Eric Schlosser
After the countrywide victory of the Chinese revolution and the solution of the land problem, two basic contradictions will still exist in China. The first… — Mao Zedong
"Don't you want to abolish state power?" Yes, we do, but not right now. We cannot do it yet. Why? Because imperialism still exists, because… — Mao Zedong
Smaller government, more individual responsibility, more individual control creates more Republicans. More state power and ownership and control and top-down decision-making creates more Democrats. — Grover Norquist
War nearly always serves as an occasion for serious expansions of state power and the destruction of legal protections — Joseph Sobran

Who Wrote These State Power Quotes

14 authors contributed a total of 19 State Power Quotes as follows: