Command Quote by Mikhail Bakunin

The state is essentially an apparatus of compulsion and coercion. The characteristic feature of its activities is to compel people through the application or…

— Ludwig von Mises

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

Every state begins in compulsion; but the habits of obedience become the content of conscience, and soon every citizen thrills with loyalty to the…

— Will Durant

Each state pursues its own interest's, however defined, in ways it judges best. Force is a means of achieving the external ends of states…

— Kenneth Waltz

The State doesn't just want you to obey, it wants to make you WANT to obey.

— H. L. Mencken

The State acquires power... and because of its insatiable lust for power it is incapable of giving up any of it. The State never…

— Frank Chodorov

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

— Gustav Landauer

'The State Within' demands a certain intelligence from its audience. It doesn't just wash over you - it asks for commitment. And that's a…

— Lennie James

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

Obey; this may be right; but beware of reverence.... Government is nothing but regulated force; force is its appropriate claim upon your attention. It…

— William Godwin

Gentle persuasion succeeds where force fails.

— Aesop

Persuasion is better than force.

— Anonymous