Quotes About Power

The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.

In the state of nature profit is the measure of right.

The state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another - no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy.

In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.

Magic is a state of mind. It is often portrayed as very black and gothic, and that is because certain practitioners played that up for a sense of power and prestige. That is a disservice. Magic is very colorful. Of this, I am sure.

The state is not abolished, it withers away.

Religion forbids us from assuming a God-like character. This is especially true in politics and government, where limiting the power of the state, division of powers, and the doctrine of checks and balances are established in order to prevent accumulation of power that might lead to such Godly claims.

In the early days of the republic, the secretary of state was the heir apparent to the president. Presidents could easily hand-pick their party's next candidate. The party caucuses formally selected the candidates, but presidents guided the process.

I am dying, but the state remains.

A functioning police state needs no police.

When the state is most corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.

Every cook has to learn how to govern the state.

I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander in chief.

The kind of thing I'm good at is knowing every politician in the state and remembering where he itches. And I know where to scratch him.

Gray Davis can run a dirty campaign better than anyone, but he can't run a state.

Pakistan is riddled with problems that are rooted in the disproportionate power of the state. Aid has only boosted that power.

In every commercial state, notwithstanding any pretension to equal rights, the exaltation of a few must depress the many.

A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.

A state always calls itself fatherland when it is ready for murder.

The mantra from the Obama State Department is 'smart power' - the not-so-new idea that all elements of national power should be utilized to influence other countries.

The Gujarat government knows what's in the interest of consumers. When they plan, they ensure they can save every single rupee or earn every single rupee for the state government and bring power at lowest cost to the consumer. They are tightfisted in their approach.

In New York, politics is a crime scene from the very beginning. We have the most corrupt state government in the United States.

In our Constitution governmental power is divided among three separate branches of the national government, three separate branches of State governments, and the peoples of the several States.

Too much of power has got concentrated in the hands of the Central and state governments.