Agency Quote by Henry Hazlitt

The competition of social power with State power is always disadvantaged, since the State can arrange the terms of competition to suit itself, even…

— Anonymous

“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

If there is a State, there must be domination of one class by another and, as a result, slavery; the State without slavery is…

— Mikhail Bakunin

The function of State coercion is to override individual coercion, and, of course, coercion exercised by any association of individuals within the State. It…

— Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse

Our main conclusions about the state are that a minimal state, limited, to the narrow functions of protection against force, theft, fraud, enforcement of…

— Robert Nozick

Whoever says State necessarily says domination, and, consequently, slavery; a State without slavery, open or concealed, is inconceivable: that is why we are enemies…

— Mikhail Bakunin

Only the State legally obtains its revenue by coercion.

— Murray Rothbard

With many sovereign states, with no system of law enforceable among them, with each state judging its grievances and ambitions according to the dictates…

— Kenneth Waltz

All empires have depended on local legitimacy and local collaboration; they are not based primarily on coercion. An imperial rule that relies wholly on…

— Niall Ferguson

The state is a coercive machine to steal resources from the private sector.

— Javier Milei

“In particular, the State has arrogated to itself a compulsory monopoly over police and military services, the provision of law, judicial decision-making, the mint…

— Murray N. Rothbard

“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