Areas Quote by David Boaz

The State is a professional apparatus that sets itself apart from the people and apart from the institutions that the people themselves create. It's…

— Murray Bookchin

A state is not the same thing as a society, although the Greeks and Romans thought it was. A state is an organization of…

— Carroll Quigley

States are violent institutions. The government of any country, including ours, represents some sort of domestic power structure, and it's usually violent. States are…

— Noam Chomsky

“The State is that organization in society which attempts to maintain a monopoly of the use of force and violence in a given territorial…

— Murray Rothbard

So what is government?... Very simply, it is an agency of coercion. Of course, there are other agencies of coercion - such as the…

— Harry Browne

The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments…

— James Madison

Governments which have a regard to the common interest are constituted in accordance with strict principles of justice, and are therefore true forms; but…

— Aristotle

The state governments have a full superintendence and control over the immense mass of local interests of their respective states, which connect themselves with…

— Joseph Story

A government is an institution that holds a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence.

— Max Weber

Government is an apparatus of compulsion and coercion.

— Ludwig von Mises

The State is a term for the legislative and administrative machinery whereby certain business of the people is transacted, and badly so.

— Emma Goldman

The State is a condition, a certain relationship between human beings, a mode of behavior; we destroy it by contracting other relationships, by behaving…

— Gustav Landauer