Aspect Quote by Noam Chomsky

We see an extensive program of dismantling state institutions... These are ingredients for catastrophe.

— Iyad Allawi

Having gathered all power to itself, [the State] has become the sole focus of all conflict, and it must construct totalitarian defences to match…

— Anthony de Jasay

Our idea is that a state is strong when the people are politically conscious. It is strong when the people know everything, can form…

— Vladimir Lenin

“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

Planning is really the hallmark of any large military formation, and it's typically a weakness in new formations and new armies.

— John R. Allen

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

“Government in and of itself is the foremost agent for destroying order and imposing chaos." "To accept the legitimacy of the state is to…

— L.K. Samuels

Is there anything worse for a state than to be split and disunited? or anything better than cohesion and unity?

— Plato

The state must be the first to be organized and totally committed to serving the interests of the people. We must always be clear…

— Samora Machel

The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.

— Ludwig von Mises

So many forces and resources would become available if States, aware (or conscious) of their true (or real) mission, would want to get on…

— African Spir

In a campaign against more than one state or army, it is more fruitful to concentrate first against the weaker partner than to attempt…

— B. H. Liddell Hart