1. statist - Noun
2. statist - Adjective
A statesman; a politician; one skilled in government.
A statistician.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe death penalty can be tolerated only by extreme statist reactionaries who demand a state that is so powerful that it has the right to kill. Noam Chomsky
Obama is a statist. He's an authoritarian. He doesn't want to govern; he wants to rule. Rush Limbaugh
There is a profound contrast between the effects of foreign aid and of voluntary private investment: foreign aid goes from government to government. It is therefore almost inevitably statist and socialistic. Henry Hazlitt
On the other hand, it seems to me that an anarchist attitude is the only one that is sufficiently radical in the face of a general statist system. Jacques Ellul
Without the state there would be anarchy for that is, despite all the perfervid ravings of the Marxist Left and statist Right, all that anarchy means-the absence of the state, the opportunity for liberty. Karl Hess
A dead language is not only one no longer spoken or written, it is unyielding language content to admire its own paralysis. Like statist language, censored and censoring. Toni Morrison