Anarchy Quote by Murray Rothbard

The State is a professional apparatus that sets itself apart from the people and apart from the institutions that the people themselves create. It's…

— Murray Bookchin

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

— Gustav Landauer

The state is an organization of mere mortals who, by one dubious method or another, have been allowed to don the mantle of political…

— Sheldon Richman

“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

“In particular, the State has arrogated to itself a compulsory monopoly over police and military services, the provision of law, judicial decision-making, the mint…

— Murray N. Rothbard

“Because the state uses violence to achieve its ends, and there is no rational end to the use of violence, states grow until they…

— Stefan Molyneux

“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 the hope of the world; it is an institution grounded in the threat of violence, whether via capital punishments or…

— Douglas Wilson

We should distinguish at this point between "government" and "state" ... A government is the consensual organization by which we adjudicate disputes, defend our…

— David Boaz

“We revolutionary anarchists are the enemies of all forms of State and State organisations ... we think that all State rule, all governments being…

— Mikhail Bakunin

The State, completely in its genesis, essentially and almost completely during the first stages of its existence, is a social institution, forced by a…

— Franz Oppenheimer

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