Quotes About Power

Islam has some of the best defenses against other god viruses and has the potential to be more parasitically aggressive when consolidating political power with a society.

The well-being of individual persons in any society varies inversely with the money at the disposal of the political class.

The technique of a mass movement aims to infect people with a malady and then offer the movement as a cure.

The rich don't have to kill to eat. They employ people, as they call it. The rich don't do evil themselves. They pay. People do all they can to please them, and everybody's happy.

People who have had power, when they become powerless, are really tragic.... We just allow ourselves to be conditioned by a society so we become as important as we're supposed to be.

Revolution that divests itself of ethical values thereby lays the foundation of injustice, deceit, and oppression for the future society.

The great drama of Russian history has been between its state and society. Put simply, Russia has always had too much state and not enough society.

Experience proves that those are oftenest abused who can be abused with the greatest impunity. Men are whipped oftenest who are whipped easiest.

Nothing has ever been more insupportable for a man and a human society than freedom. –The Grand Inquisitor

There's too much democracy in the culture, not enough in the society.

Any society's upper-crust is riddled with immorality, how else d'you think they keep their power? Reputation is king of the public sphere, not private. It is dethroned by public acts.

Beware the ridiculous. It will one day rule you.

The real problem is that the way that power is given out in our society pits us against each other.

Society is the master, and man is the servant.

Illnesses have always been used as metaphors to enliven charges that a society was corrupt or unjust.

If there is no willingness to use force to defend civil society, it's civil society that goes away, not force.

At its essence, the message of the Occupations is simply this: 'Here in the face of power we will sit and create a new society, in which you do count.'

It is at the heart of our human enterprise, that is to say, at the heart of society, to allow consensus a power it ought not to have.

Unfortunately, in our society, power means the ability to dominate and oppress.

People who run for president seriously and people who become president enter a bizarre secret society in which they have had an experience that none of us will ever have.

An occupying power has no right to make significant alterations in the character of the occupied society, to change the laws all around, without a strong security reason and so forth.

I would love to do an unauthorized biography about Congress. It's like a secret society up there.

Public opinion is the atmosphere of society, without which the forces of the individual would collapse, and all the institutions of society fly into atoms.

Government by idea tends to take in everything, to make the whole of society obedient to the idea. Spaces not so governed are unconquered, beyond the border, unconverted, a future danger.