State power may refer to:
- Police power, the capacity of a state to regulate behaviours and enforce order within its territory
- The extroverted concept of power in international relations
- The introverted concept of political power within a society.
- Power (sociology)
- Social influence
- Coercion
Famous quotes containing the words state and/or power:
“For I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.”
—Bible: New Testament Philippians 4:11.
“It has been the struggle between privileged men who have managed to get hold of the levers of power and the people in general with their vague and changing aspirations for equality, for justice, for some kind of gentler brotherhood and peace, which has kept that balance of forces we call our system of government in equilibrium.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)