Destruction Quote by Lester B. Pearson

“Men are excessively ruthless and cruel not as a rule out of malice but from outraged righteousness. How much more is this true of…

— Paul Johnson

All nonstate threats to life, liberty, and property appear to be relatively petty and therefore can be dealt with. Only states can pose truly…

— Robert Higgs

States can be deterred by the fear of retaliation; non-state organisations cannot by deterred at all.

— John Bruton

“The state, rather, is a parasitic institution that lives off the wealth of its subjects, concealing its anti-social, predatory nature beneath a public-interest veneer.”

— Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr

The state always poses a greater threat to society than whatever problem it purports to solve.

— Llewellyn Rockwell

States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.

— Noam Chomsky

Precisely because the State has the monopoly of coercion it can be allowed the monopoly only of coercion. Only if the modern State can…

— Henry Hazlitt

History affords us many instances of the ruin of states, by the prosecution of measures ill suited to the temper and genius of their…

— Benjamin Franklin

As the State is a soulless machine, it can never be weaned from violence to which it owes its very existence.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Now and always, hard-line policy and those who embrace it are vessels for darker forces that are at once self-cannibalizing and combustible. No good…

— Queen Rania of Jordan

“Many criminologists believe that the source of the state’s pacifying effect isn’t just its brute coercive power but the trust it commands among the…

— Steven Pinker

“A society whose moral ideas inhibit their own defense will always suffer defeat by the very predators they deem immoral.”

— Randy Wayne White