Crime Quote by Mikhail Bakunin

If you do not want the State to act like a criminal, you must disarm it as you would a criminal; you must keep…

— Albert J. Nock

Our main conclusions about the state are that a minimal state, limited, to the narrow functions of protection against force, theft, fraud, enforcement of…

— Robert Nozick

In many countries, the authority of the state is weak and openly defied by militias and terrorist groups. In others, state forces themselves act…

— David Lidington

“Political liberty—that is, the ability of societies to rule themselves—does not depend only on the degree to which a society can mobilize opposition to…

— Francis Fukuyama

Every state protects the privileges of the powerful.

— Colin Ward

All the citizens of a state cannot be equally powerful, but they may be equally free

— Voltaire

In an ideal world, where there are only good states, power would be largely irrelevant.

— John Mearsheimer

“The supreme law of the State is self-preservation at any cost. And since all States, ever since they came to exist upon the earth,…

— Mikhail Bakunin

Great powers that have no reason to fight with each other, but are merely concerned with their own survival, nevertheless have little choice but…

— John Mearsheimer

No state more extensive than the minimal state can be justified.

— Robert Nozick

The State lives by its very existence on the two-fold and pervasive employment of aggressive violence against the very liberty and property of individuals…

— Murray Rothbard

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

— Mahatma Gandhi