Quotes About Power

We sometimes treat the information industries as if they were like any other enterprise, but they are not, for their structure determines who gets heard. It

the best antidote to the disruptive power of innovation is overregulation. That is to say, the industry learned how to secure the enactment of seemingly innocuous and sensible regulations that nonetheless spelled doom for any rival. In

Markets are born free, yet no sooner are they born than some would-be emperor is forging chains. Paradoxically,

If we believe in liberty, it must be freedom from both private and public coercion.

An empire long united, must divide; an empire long divided, must unite. Thus it has ever been, and thus it will always be.

The Cycle is powered by disruptive innovations that upend once thriving industries, bankrupt the dominant powers, and change the world. Such innovations are exceedingly rare, but they are what makes the Cycle go.

In a fallen world marked by human depravity and deep-seated sin, in a world where Hitler and Stalin had recruited millions of followers to commit mass murder, love must harness power and seek justice in order to have moral meaning. Love without power remained impotent, and power without love was bankrupt.

Unjust social orders do no fall merely by appeals to the consciences of the oppressor, though such appeals may be an important element; history teaches us that they fall because a large enough number of people organize a movement powerful enough to push them down. Rarely do such revolutions emerge in a neat and morally pristine process.

What should have been shattering news—a Klansman dictating orders to elected officials and leaders of the dominant political party—barely caused a stir.

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Americans had become a force of awful geology, changing the face of the earth more than "the combined activities of volcanoes, earthquakes, tidal waves, tornadoes and all the excavations of mankind since the beginning of history.

the Klan had "changed its bed sheets for a policeman's uniform.

With a campaign slogan that railed against what he called "The Three C's—Corporations, Carpetbaggers, and Coons," Murray won by a huge margin, 301,921 votes to 208,575.

Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.

Most members of the incoming state legislature took orders from the hooded order, as did the majority of the congressional delegation.

But at the time, she was too scared to do anything. His reach into the cops and courts, he told her, was beyond anything she could imagine.

In Muncie, the "Constitution had ceased to function," wrote the Chicago Tribune, after the Klan had established a "super-government" not based on the rule of law.

The house was thick with politicians and thick with Klansmen, one and the same.

He told her he "controlled every court in Indiana." For $30, he could get someone to sign an affidavit to anything he dictated, he boasted. For $50, he could get a man killed.

the most powerful Klan in history, the only realm that had complete political control of a state.

In Marion County, every major elected official but two was a Klansman.

Fully half the town of 30,000 belonged to the Klan, including mayor, prosecutor, police force, and school board.

At the time, she was too traumatized to go to the police and report a felony committed by one of the most powerful men in the state. And besides, what good would it do? The Kokomo cops were Klansmen.

They pored over a list of Klan-backed candidates for high office next year—governors in the West, the South, and the Midwest, senators from ten more states, and the presidential ticket. About seventy members of Congress were faithful to the hooded order