Interest Quote by Noam Chomsky

States are violent institutions. The government of any country, including ours, represents some sort of domestic power structure, and it's usually violent. States are…

— Noam Chomsky

The state is the institutional manifestation of violence.

— Javier Milei

“The state is a voluntary association of individuals designed to serve their individual interests. The state is not a faceless villain. The state is…

— Robert Peate

The United States is a violent military state. It's been involved in military action all over the place.

— Noam Chomsky

Everything done by the state is ultimately done by means of aggression, which is to say violence or the threat of violence against the…

— Llewellyn Rockwell

The State practices "violence," the individual must not do so. The state's behavior is violence, and it calls its violence "law"; that of the…

— Max Stirner

The state represents violence in a concentrated and organize form.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“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

The State calls its own violence, law; but that of the individual, crime

— Max Stirner

“States are far less violent than traditional bands and tribes. Modern Western countries, even in their most war-torn centuries, suffered no more than around…

— Steven Pinker

State violence cannot be defined simply as a political issue but also as a pedagogical issue that wages violence against the minds, desires, bodies…

— Henry Giroux

States have invested themselves with the right to legitimise violence - so who gets criminalised and delegitimised? Only - or well that's excessive -…

— Arundhati Roy