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

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.

The greatest power is not money power, but political power.

It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic power.

Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.

All political power is a trust.