Quotes About Power

Even in a society as tightly controlled as Singapore's, the market creates certain forces which perhaps in the long run may lead to democracy

How fortunate for governments that people do not think. There is no thinking except in giving and executing commands. If it were otherwise human society could not exist.

We are the only institution in our society that can question a president on a regular basis and make him accountable. Otherwise, he could be king.

As long as politics is the shadow cast on society by big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.

The first man to fence in a piece of land, saying "this is mine" and who found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society.

The transformative power of love is not fully embraced in our society because we often wrongly believe that torment and anguish are our 'natural' condition.

Men lived like fishes; the great ones devoured the small.

The police become necessary in human society Only at that junction in human society Where it is split between those who have and those who ain't got

Hitherto, every form of society has been based ... on the antagonism of oppressing and oppressed classes.

as a society emphasizes and values some aspects of the total range of human potentials more than others, the valued aspects are associated closely with, and limited to, the dominant group's domain.

The last western society to worship female powers was Minoan Crete. And significantly, that fell and did not rise again.

The middle class is collapsing and we are moving toward an oligarchic form of society, where the billionaires will control the economy and the political life of the country.

In a racially divided society, majority rule is not a reliable instrument of democracy.

To be omnipotent but friendless is to reign.

America is about class. To pretend that it isn't is very ignorant. No society has ever existed without some kind of a ruling class.

Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Maker of the world, but degenerates once it gets into the hands of man

Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.

In a laissez-faire society, there could exist no public institution with the power to forcefully protect people from themselves. From other people (criminals), yes. From one's own self, no.

Anybody who decides to take me on needs to put on knuckle-dusters. If you think you can hurt me more than I can hurt you, try. There is no way you can govern a Chinese society.

Revolution is born as a social entity within the oppressor society.

I know of no safe depository of the ultimate power of the society but the people themselves.

The art of governing mankind by deceiving them.

The state always poses a greater threat to society than whatever problem it purports to solve.

The human body and mind are tremendous forces that are continually amazing scientists and society. Therefore, we have no choice but to keep an open mind as to what the human being can achieve.