Achieve Quote by Kenneth Waltz

The use of force stands in need of control by a public neutral authority, in the interests of liberty no less than of justice.…

— Bertrand Russell

Force, governmental coercion, is the instrument by which the ethics of altruism - the belief that the individual exists to serve others - is…

— Nathaniel Branden

“For realists, the state is the main actor and sovereignty is its distinguishing trait. The meaning of the sovereign state is inextricably bound up…

— John Baylis

The State is not force alone. It depends upon the credulity of man quite as much as upon his docility. Its aim is not…

— H. L. Mencken

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

The essence of government is force, and most often that force is used to accomplish evil ends.

— Walter E. Williams

“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

The state is a force incarnate. Worse, it is the silly parading of force. It never seeks to prevail by persuasion. Whenever it thrusts…

— Mikhail Bakunin

Force rules the world, and not opinion; but opinion is that which makes use of force

— Blaise Pascal

So many forces and resources would become available if States, aware (or conscious) of their true (or real) mission, would want to get on…

— African Spir

Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes,…

— Simone Weil

Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely.

— Leon Trotsky