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:
“An alliance is like a chain. It is not made stronger by adding weak links to it. A great power like the United States gains no advantage and it loses prestige by offering, indeed peddling, its alliances to all and sundry. An alliance should be hard diplomatic currency, valuable and hard to get, and not inflationary paper from the mimeograph machine in the State Department.”
—Walter Lippmann (1889–1974)
“True freedom is to have power over oneself for everything.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)