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The timing & characteristics of state intervention affect not only organizational tactics and strategies, but the content and definition of interest itself... Some scholars…

— Theda Skocpol

“[...] in a predatory capitalist economy, state intervention would be an absolute necessity to preserve human existence and to prevent the destruction of the…

— Noam Chomsky

“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

Interventionism cannot be considered as an economic system destined to stay. It is a method for the transformation of capitalism into socialism by a…

— Ludwig von Mises

[T]he mass-man sees in the State an anonymous power, and feeling himself, like it, anonymous, he believes that the State is something of his…

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

I refer to calls for humanitarian intervention in the affairs of another state - a new idea, this - even when they are made…

— Boris Yeltsin

I support the state, but not the state-run economy. The state should intervene only to create the conditions necessary for the private sector to…

— Abdoulaye Wade

The state is not an organism capable of bringing either moral or material improvements to the populace...but merely a vehicle of power for the…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

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

Certainly I think the state is more than willing to not only attempt to change the consciousness of people, but to employ violence in…

— Henry Giroux

The state is and has been in history a source of disorder and chaos, and this problem gets worse the more the state grows.

— Llewellyn Rockwell

History has shown us many times that if the state repressively forces the redistribution of wealth and social justice, it becomes dangerous both for…

— Rohini Nilekani