Quotes About Power

When a government is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the leaders of the government control the situation

A nation of slaves is always prepared to applaud the clemency of their master who, in the abuse of absolute power, does not proceed to the last extremes of injustice and oppression.

Money writes books, money sells them. Give me not righteousness, O Lord, give me money, only money.

Rich people are poor people with money.

War is never economically beneficial except for those in position to profit from war expenditures.

The greatest power is not money power, but political power.

When a person with money meets a person with experience, the person with the experience winds up with the money and the person with the money winds up with the experience.

With the exception only of the period of the gold standard, practically all governments of history have used their exclusive power to issue money to defraud and plunder the people.

The impression was gaining ground with me that it was a good thing to let the money be my slave and not make myself a slave to money.

If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master.

Money makes even bastards legitimate.

Nothing is so secure as that money will not defeat it.

That most delicious of all privileges - spending other people's money.

When business accepts help from the government, it can be like going to bed with a hippopotamus. It's nice and warm for the moment, but then your bedmate rolls over and crushes you.

One of the things that is interesting about reading conspiracy theory is that much of what folks think is conspiracy is really many people acting in concert to make or protect their money.

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Washington is dominated by big money.

At the point the money hits your hands, you have the power to determine your financial future.

Vote for me. I'll use my office to take another American's money and give it to you.

Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works. Greed clarifies and cuts through to the essence of the evolutionary spirit.

Others loved themselves, money, theories, power: Lenin loved his fellow men.... Lenin was God, as Christ was God, because God is Love and Christ and Lenin were all Love!

Crime, money, power, drugs - are all linked.

Money: There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.

Money is the only substance which can keep a cold world from nicknaming a citizen Hey, you