French revolution Quote by Grace Lee Boggs

I think we have to understand that the nation-state became powerful in the wake of the French Revolution, whereas the nation-state has become powerless…

— Grace Lee Boggs

As things get worse and the State seems powerless to help, the State will seem less and less legitimate. People will lose their moral…

— Jack Donovan

It is a crime against the State to be powerful enough to commit one.

— Pierre Corneille

A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population…

— Aldous Huxley

Ideas more than once have prevailed against naked power. Guns and aircraft alone do not make a state powerful. Unless force is backed up…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

The death penalty can be tolerated only by extreme statist reactionaries who demand a state that is so powerful that it has the right…

— Noam Chomsky

You know that in the Eurasian space, Russia is the central state, the most powerful state. But to become an empire, a member of…

— Alexander Lukashenko

“The English state thus constructed a system, later followed by other European countries, in which the ruler was subject to the law and in…

— Nicholas Wade

The idea of protest organizing, as summarized by community organizer Saul Alinsky, is that if we put enough pressure on the government, it will…

— Grace Lee Boggs

I think of what's happening in Detroit as part of something that's much bigger. Most people think of the decline of the city as…

— Grace Lee Boggs

We can hardly expect the nation-state to make itself superfluous, at least not overnight. Rather what we must aim for is really nothing more…

— Henry Morgenthau, Jr

The real issue is control. The Internet is too widespread to be easily dominated by any single government. By creating a seamless global economic…

— John Perry Barlow