Quotes About Power

Nothing can be more readily disproved than the old saw, "You can't keep a good man down." Most human societies have been beautifully organized to keep good men down.

The entire trend of development is towards abolition of coercive domination of one part of society over another.

Every ruler is harsh whose laws is new.

Sometimes it takes a lowly, title-less man to humble the world. Kings, rulers, CEOs, judges, doctors, pastors, they are already expected to be greater and wiser.

Women with money and women in power are two uncomfortable ideas in our society.

If we wish to preserve a free society, it is essential that we recognize that the desirability of a particular object is not sufficient justification for the use of coercion.

The great always sell their society to the vanity of the little.

Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death

In America, we are living in a society which is moving more and more toward an oligarchic form of society where government is dominated heavily by big-money interests.

Junk journalism is the evidence of a society that has got at least one thing right, that there should be nobody with the power to dictate where responsible journalism begins.

Silence often expresses 'more powerfully than speech the verdict and judgment of society.

In an oppressive society if a group stands up to take care of the lambs, it automatically stands up against the wolves.

The most dangerous thing in American society is a self-respecting and self-loving black person, because they're on the road to freedom and that means they're gonna run up against the powers that be.

I suspect that democracy is not viable in a technologically advanced society. Free people wield too much ability to destroy.

I don't think the advertisers have any real idea of their power not only to reflect but to mould society.

Art has political consequences, which is to say, it reorganizes society and creates constituencies of people around it.

Under observation, we act less free, which means we effectively are less free.

We believe we are the consumers, but we are the consumed.

In a mature society, 'civil servant' is semantically equal to 'civil master.'

Unlike every other person and institution in society, government obtains its revenue from coercion, from taxation.

Society is an artificial construction, a defense against nature's power.

Remember, social progress only happens when those in society's privileged classes choose to give up their status.

Society gives legitimacy and society can take it away.

In a capitalistic society the losers slaved for the winners and you have to have more losers than winners.