Power Quote by Kenneth Kaunda

Some people draw a comforting distinction between force and violence. I refuse to cloud the issue by such word-play. The power which establishes a…

— Kenneth Kaunda

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

Power depends ultimately on physical force. By teaching people that violence is wrong (except, of course, when the system itself uses violence via the…

— Theodore Kaczynski

“Violence is the power of the state; imagination and non-violence the power of civil society.”

— Rebecca Solnit

The state is the institutional manifestation of violence.

— Javier Milei

Violence is not power, but the absence of power.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Violence can always destroy power; out of the barrel of a gun grows the most effective command, resulting in the most instant and perfect…

— Hannah Arendt

Everything done by the state is ultimately done by means of aggression, which is to say violence or the threat of violence against the…

— Llewellyn Rockwell

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

Power is of two kinds: one is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of…

— Denis Diderot

The power of the state to impose restraints and burdens upon persons and property in conservation and promotion of the public health, good order,…

— Melville Fuller