Weak State Quotes

We are the poorest and weakest state in the world, occupying the lowest position in international affairs; the rest of mankind is the carving knife and the serving dish, while we are the fish and the meat.

If you do not want the State to act like a criminal, you must disarm it as you would a criminal; you must keep it weak. The State will always be criminal in proportion to its strength; a weak State will always be as criminal as it can be, or dare be, but if it is kept down to the proper limit of weakness - which, by the way, is a vast deal lower limit than people are led to believe - its criminality may be safely got on with.

A generous spirit prefers that his country should be poor, and weak, and of no account, but free, rather than powerful, prosperous, and enslaved.

Putin sought to keep Ukraine weak through corruption.

In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws.

… weak nation strategy

It may seem obvious. A government that cannot provide security for its citizens will soon find itself running a weak or failed state.

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 raggedy-assed, 4th rate, little country