Capable Quote by Noam Chomsky

The state is a coercive machine to steal resources from the private sector.

— Javier Milei

Whenever the government is involved, there is an element of coercion.

— Dinesh D'Souza

Whoever says State necessarily says domination, and, consequently, slavery; a State without slavery, open or concealed, is inconceivable: that is why we are enemies…

— Mikhail Bakunin

The State is not the nation, and the State can be modified and even abolished in its present form, without harming the nation. On…

— Randolph Bourne

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

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

As the State is a soulless machine, it can never be weaned from violence to which it owes its very existence.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“North Korea, which straddles categories: a nation-state with the instincts of a terrorist organization.”

— Ted Koppel

North Korea is a regime arming with missiles and weapons of mass destruction, while starving its citizens.

— George W. Bush

If you make the state responsible for everything, you shouldn't be surprised when you end up with a state that bears some resemblance to…

— Wolfgang Schauble

The state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another - no less so in a democratic republic than in…

— Friedrich Engels

Since outright slavery has been discredited, "democracy" is the only remaining rationale for state compulsion that most people will accept.

— Joseph Sobran