Quotes About Power

Translation is the opposite of empire

Public schoolboys are not merely conservatives, they are by nature totalitarian reactionaries.

The fire was silent, the little houses collapsing into the flames without complaint, flocks of sparks rising to the sky. At a distance it seemed beautiful, and I thought it was strange that powerful violence is often so pleasing to the eye...

Work with what you have control of and you'll have your hands full.

Happiness is the knowledge that one is more powerful than all the objects in the world and all the thoughts in one's own mind.

Ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.

Education is indoctrination if you're white — subjugation if you're black.

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

There is now the capacity to make tyranny total in America. Only law ensures that we never fall into that abyss—the abyss from which there is no return.

All politics are based on the indifference of the majority.

The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.

Karl Marx disse que a religião é o ópio do povo, mas estava errado. A religião não é o ópio do povo, ela é o incendiário do povo! Nunca o mal é feito tão bem como quando é feito em nome da religião.

When Whitney Houston died, I felt great sadness. My sadness, of course, was about our collective loss - when you listened to this nightingale sing, your body would drop into a chair, your head would tilt up, a small smile would creep across your face, and inside you knew that there was a higher power somewhere: gifted, beautiful, spiritual.

Influence must ever be in proportion to property; and it is right it should.

In the long run, people have more to fear from governments than from terrorists. Terrorists come and go, but power-hungry politicians will always be with us.

There is no technological magic bullet that will make the government as smart as it is powerful.

We need a constitutional amendment to make the federal government obey the Constitution.

Truth is a lagging indicator in politics.

Trusting government nowadays means dividing humanity into two classes: those who can be trusted with power to run other peoples lives, and those who cannot even be trusted to run their own lives.

The Night Watchman State has been replaced by Highway Robber States governments in which no asset, no contract, no domain is safe from the fleeting whim of politicians.

Bogus fears can produce real servitude.

Rather than a democracy, we increasingly have an elective dictatorship. People are merely permitted to choose who will violate the laws and the Constitution.

The surest effect of exalting government is to make it easier for some people to drag others down.

The more that democracy is assumed to be inevitable, the more likely it will self-destruct.