Believe Quote by Murray Bookchin

I believe it is still true that conflicts among major powers usually stem from geopolitical rivalries but rarely from economic competition.

— Robert Kagan

It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power, in number, in pride, in absolute dominion over the…

— Murray Rothbard

Could rivalry be a productive system?

— Sara Genn

The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries.

— John Adams

“Until recent history, the central state represented about 5 percent of the economy. ...and further, governments were sufficiently distracted by war to leave economic affairs…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“There are few problems in the world that economic prosperity cannot help solve. Yet the engines of that prosperity are under fierce attack. The…

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

The State dominates the Nation because it alone represents it.

— Adolf Hitler

The ideal situation for any state is to experience sharp economic growth while its rivals' economies grow slowly or hardly at all.

— John Mearsheimer

Disunion and civil war are at hand; and yet I fear disunion and war less than compromise. We can recover from them. The free…

— Rutherford B. Hayes

I actually do not really like rivalry, but this world full of it.

— Reny

We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace - business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

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