The state is in danger of falling into disrepute due to the evidence of its inadequate resources.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.
Vast areas are witness to the struggles of destitute populations trying to survive under unlivable conditions.
We cannot build a viable state with a country that is disintegrating into small pieces.
Even a competent lawyer may not be able to mount an adequate defense against the state, with all its resources, if he has next to nothing for investigation and effectively works for starvation wages.
Powerful states can maintain themselves only by crime, little states are virtuous only by weakness.
States seem to have a natural life cycle, and anything can occur to change them into something else, and that something might be no bad thing.
Undoubtedly, a democratic state without an alternative is a danger to democracy itself.
The state knows best how to protect resources.
We have never been in danger of running out of resources, but we have encountered considerable dangers from people who say we are running out of resources and who say that human activities need to be constrained.
The danger facing us comes not from lack of resources, but from people who insist that we have run out of resources. If you embrace their idea of a world where there is only so much to go around, then you are endorsing a program of genocide and a war of all against all.