Felipe Calderon Quotes

Never underestimate the power of the State to act out its own massive fantasies.

Government is nothing but regulated force; force is its appropriate claim upon your attention

Government is force.

The State acquires power... and because of its insatiable lust for power it is incapable of giving up any of it. The State never abdicates.

All wars come to an end, at least temporarily. But the authority acquired by the state hangs on; political power never abdicates.

The power which a multiple millionaire, who may be my neighbor and perhaps my employer, has over me is very much less than that which the smallest "functionaire" possesses who wields the coercive power of the state, and on whose desecration it depends whether and how I am allowed to live or to work.

Even when the State does good things, it finally rests on a club, a gun, or a prison, for its power to carry them through.

A government role in our society should be inherently suspect …. There is something inherently coercive in the nature of government.

The practice of a ruling power in the State is but a feeble proof of its legality.

While the state can coerce, with some exceptions (like North Korea) it seems to me misleading to think of it as capable of "enslavement."

You get the same order of criminality from any State to which you give power to exercise it; and whatever power you give the State to do things for you carries with it the equivalent power to do things to you.

Taxation is robbery based on monopoly of weapons

Government is an apparatus of compulsion and coercion.

Government is not capable of caring. Government gets things done through coercion. They fine, they penalize, they tax, they confiscate, they jail, they bully to get what they want.

The state has physical power and uses it when necessary; the power of religion is love and beneficence.

Democratic nation states remain far more capable of managing the circuit of coercion, taxation and legitimation than any transnational bodies.

The power which establishes a state is violence; the power which maintains it is violence; the power which eventually overthrows it is violence.

It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its own.

That power which had both the purse and the sword, had the government of the whole country, and might extend its powers to any and to every object.

The state is force incarnate, its essence is command and compulsion.

The power of eminent domain is essential to a sovereign government.

The right of erecting corporations is one inherent in, and inseparable from, the idea of sovereign power.

Whether the state be Marxist or capitalist, it makes no difference. The dominant ideology is that of sovereignty.

If the state is strong, it crushes us. If it is weak, we perish. If the state is strong, it crushes us. If it is weak, we perish.

...a state is not the same thing as a society ... A state is an organization of power on a territorial basis.