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:
“The state is a creation of nature and man is by nature a political animal.”
—Aristotle (384–323 B.C.)
“The British are a self-distrustful, diffident people, agreeing with alacrity that they are neither successful nor clever, and only modestly claiming that they have a keener sense of humour, more robust common sense, and greater staying power as a nation than all the rest of the world put together.”
—Quoted in Fourth Leaders from the Times (1950)