Quotes About Power

If we have power to degrade an entire society, then we also have the power to uplift it.

There's no such thing as sexism against men. That's because sexism is prejudice + power. Men are the dominant gender with power in society.

The state reserves the right to be the sole interpreter of the needs of society.

The ideal society can be described, quite simply, as that in which no man has the power of means to coerce others.

Society must be made to operate in such a way that it eradicates once and for all the desire of a man to become richer, or wiser, or more powerful than others.

The rich cannot accumulate wealth without the co-operation of the poor in society.

A liberal society cannot be defended by herbivores. We need carnivores to save us, but we had better make sure the meat-eaters hunt only on our orders.

Men must stop being jealous of their power and generously allow freedom and responsibility to others. The reward is harmonious families and society.

Total surveillance is increasingly the general condition of society as a whole.

Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a politician who has lost his job, save only a retired stud-horse.

Capitalism is a social cancer. It has always been a social cancer. It is the disease of society. It is the malignancy of society.

Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

Democracy in itself does not define or guarantee a free society. History has told many stories of democratic societies that have degenerated into corruption, plunder, and tyranny.

In any given society the authority of man over man runs in inverse proportion to the intellectual development of that society.

Our society is not one of spectacle but of surveillance.

The Council on Foreign Relations is the American branch of a society which originated in England ... [and] ... believes national boundaries should be obliterated and one-world rule established.

Kings stand more in need of the company of the intelligent than the intelligent do of the society of kings.

A corrupt society is terrible for humanity and great for business.

Power does not reside in institutions, not even the state or large corporations. It is located in the networks that structure society.

The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces - in nature, in society, in man himself.

The economic anarchy of capitalist society as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evil.

Society is divided into two classes, the shearers and the shorn.

If the state - and within the state, the judiciary particularly - harasses and undermines the Church , in any society the state undoes itself.

Men decided that it was better to pay taxes than to fight among themselves; better to pay tribute to one magnificent robber than to bribe them all.