Empires Quote by John Boyd Orr

We need a dramatically expanded use of statecraft.

— Newt Gingrich

“Particularly telling are civilisation-style strategy games, such as Minecraft, The Settlers of Catan or Sid Meier’s Civilization. The game may be set in the…

— Yuval Noah Harari

The current state of knowledge is a moment in history, changing just as rapidly as the state of knowledge in the past has ever…

— Jean Piaget

An important part of what the state does is preserving its history.

— James R. Thompson

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

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

— Gustav Landauer

“despite the absence of a real state monopoly on violence, early states were much more formidable structures than chiefdoms. And everywhere they appear, they…

— David Christian

“But belief in a system cannot be sustained for ever. Empires based solely on power and domination, while allowing their subjects to do as…

— Paul Kriwaczek

State formation has been a brutal project, with many hideous consequences. But the results exist, and their pernicious aspects should be overcome.

— Noam Chomsky

Empires, essentially, create order. In their absence, you don't end up with lots of happy, little nation-states full of people sitting around campfires singing…

— Niall Ferguson

Experience serves to prove that the worth and strength of a state depend far less upon the form of its institutions than upon the…

— Samuel Smiles

Any society that entails the strengthening of the state apparatus by giving it unchecked control over the economy, and re-unites the polity and the…

— Robert Higgs