Authority Quote by Philip Bobbitt

If the State does not acquire supremacy over [vast private] enterprises, it becomes their puppet, and they become the real State.

— Bertrand Russell

In many countries, the authority of the state is weak and openly defied by militias and terrorist groups. In others, state forces themselves act…

— David Lidington

Those lumpen mercenaries who make money on the back of the destiny of all, those who call for invasion, those who continuously offend in…

— Miguel Diaz-Canel

Every state has not only the right but the duty to make adequate provision for its own defense in the way it thinks best,…

— Lester B. Pearson

We hear the term independent contractors in Iraq. Independent contractors? Mercenaries!

— Studs Terkel

Finally, states have monopolized, or sought to monopolize, armed force.

— Immanuel Wallerstein

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

— Javier Milei

Every State has the primary duty to protect its own population from grave and sustained violations of human rights, as well as from the…

— Pope Benedict XVI

The State lives by its very existence on the two-fold and pervasive employment of aggressive violence against the very liberty and property of individuals…

— Murray Rothbard

Like all predatory or parasitic institutions, the state's first instinct is that of self-preservati on. All its enterprises are directed first towards preserving its…

— Albert J. Nock

With many sovereign states, with no system of law enforceable among them, with each state judging its grievances and ambitions according to the dictates…

— Kenneth Waltz

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