Armed forces Quote by Immanuel Wallerstein Download Open image “Finally, states have monopolized, or sought to monopolize, armed force.” — Immanuel Wallerstein ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Armed forces Capitalism Force States
Governments have monopolies on certain things, like eminent domain and deadly force. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Almost all war making states borrow extensively, raise taxes, and seize the means of combat - including men - from reluctant citizens... — Charles Tilly Copy Share Image
It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power, in number, in pride, in absolute dominion over the… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
A state that privatizes most of its functions will inevitably defend itself by employing its own people as mercenaries — Philip Bobbitt Copy Share Image
“the military has become a substitute welfare state for a large swath of small-town America. In a sense, the military—despite its reputation for political… — Rosa Brooks Copy Share Image
Going to war accelerated the move from indirect to direct rule. Almost any state that makes war finds that it cannot pay for the… — Charles Tilly Copy Share Image
In all the new states of the Union, land monopolization has gone on at an alarming rate, but in none of them so fast… — Henry George Copy Share Image
What we have is a more sophisticated form of imperialism, which is economic. But lurking in the background, always ready to go, is an… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
The U.S. has subsidized the armies of other countries while allowing for the very sad depletion of our military. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
“[C]apitalist trade and industry cannot thrive without access to military and political power. State interventions have always been critical to its advancement.” — Amitav Ghosh Copy Share Image
It seems foolhardy to assume that the armed state will necessarily be benevolent. The American political tradition is, for good or ill, based in… — Sanford Levinson Copy Share Image
“La science sociale di XIXe siecle nous a legue un terrible heritage, l'idee que els processus se divisent en trois champs separes: le politique,… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
Uncertainty is wondrous, and.. certainty, were it to be real, would be moral death. — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
A second variety concentrated on presumed major transformations of the capitalist system as of some recent point in time, in which the whole earlier… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
I am suggesting that there is, and always has been, a rather high correlation between ethnicity and occupation/economic role throughout the various time-space zones… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
The concept that one ought to restrict one's political involvement to one's own state was deeply antithetical to those who were pursuing the accumulation… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
One by one, these governments came undone, and were forced into IMF tutelage (and national illegitimacy) by the careening oil prices, the debt imbroglio,… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
The language of intrinsic human rights represented a significant advance beyond the previous language of world religions in terms of its universal applicability and… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
Wars between states and people seem to have existed under all historical systems for as long as we have some recorded evidence. War is… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
Production for sale in a market in which the object is to realize the maximum profit is the essential feature of a capitalist world-economy.… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
We seem to be in the midst of a process of cascading bifurcations that may last some 50 more years. We can be sure… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
Scientific culture created a framework within which individual mobility was possible without threatening hierarchical work-force allocation. On the contrary, meritocracy reinforced hierarchy. Finally, meritocracy… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
It is not surprising that liberals believed in progress. The idea of progress justified the entire transition from feudalism to capitalism. It legitimated the… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
The terrorist attacks of September 11th and the courageous actions of our armed forces in Afghanistan and Iraq remind us that friends of tyranny… — Carl Levin Copy Share Image
Recruitment and retention are critical to sustain our Armed Forces with the best men and women willing to stand in the gap and make… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My father was in the military; he was a captain. His service was to quote-unquote integrate the Armed Forces overseas. — Joe Morton Copy Share Image
I believe that homosexual acts between individuals are immoral and that we should not condone immoral acts. I do not believe that the Armed… — Peter Pace Copy Share Image
“The highest ranking Russian intelligence officer to defect from Russia, Stanislav Lunev, testified at a Congressional hearing held in California in January, 2000. Before… — John Price Copy Share Image
A colonial war is a very dirty kind of war. You're not fighting armed forces. You're fighting mostly unarmed people. And to fight that… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Scotland forms a crucial part of our Armed Forces which should not be jeopardised by rushed cuts or a rush to the exit from… — Philip Hammond Copy Share Image
The people of Iraq are grateful for what the people of the United States of America and our armed forces and our coalition forces… — Johnny Isakson Copy Share Image
“The ultimate objective of all military operations is the destruction of the enemy’s armed forces and his will to fight.”* This sums up the… — J.C. Wylie Copy Share Image
Relations between States, as between individuals, must be regulated not by armed force, but in accordance with...truth, justice and vigorous and sincere co-operation. — Pope John XXIII Copy Share Image
Word to the Nation: Guard zealously your right to serve in the Armed Forces, for without them, there will be no other rights to… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
