Quotes About Power

All government, of course, is against liberty.

I believe that all government is evil, in that all government must necessarily make war on liberty, and that the democratic government is at least as bad as any of the other forms

Voting is simply a way of determining which side is the stronger without putting it to the test of fighting

Free speech is too dangerous to a democracy to be permitted.

History deals mainly with captains and kings, gods and prophets, exploiters and despoilers, not with useful men.

The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.

but the world is apt to make an erroneous estimate: ignorant of the dispositions which constitute our happiness or misery, they bring to an undistinguished scale the means of the one, as connected with power, wealth, or grandeur, and of the other with their contraries.  Philosophers and poets have often protested against this decision; but their arguments have been despised as declamatory, or ridiculed as romantic.

I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies." ---Thomas Jefferson

Doctors need to be held accountable, since power corrupts. There must be complaints procedures and litigation, commissions of enquiry, punishment and compensation. At the same time if you do not hide or deny any mistakes when things go wrong, and if your patients and their families know that you are distressed by whatever happened, you might, if you are lucky, receive the precious gift of forgiveness.

Pacientët përpiqen ta mposhtin frikën e tyre duke i veshur kirurgut fuqi mbinatyrore!

Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything except his own nature.

Isn't it strange how some people strive to drag everything into politics! A political reason is assigned to everything, and "everything is politics.

Knowledge is power, and power is the possession of influence over the minds and actions of others.

Religious faith always transcends culture, and is the integrating principle and power of man's cultural striving.

If there is any truth to my parenting the dreamwork movement, it comes from the power of the press.

A rose trapped inside a fist.

People are best on records and books because you can turn them off or put them back on the shelf.

You'll never know that just sitting across a room full of people, I have transformed you into a goddess. A destroyer of despair.

It's about time that governments feared the people instead of the other way around.

You know, we are one nation under a god. Yes, you were right. An angry, crack slinging god who decorates with bullets and spent condoms.

If it's a man's world, as they say, then men: your world is a poorly run carnage fest.

The power of depression is undeniable When I'm in its grip I don't remember ever feeling any other way

Muscle mass does not always equal strength. Strength is kindness and sensitivity. Strength is understanding that your power is both physical and emotional. That it comes from the body and the mind. And the heart. - from "The Iron

I have felt the muscle pull away from the bone. For a time I was mislead into thinking that I avenge these acts of harm against me. I realized that by living and growing stronger on a diet of scar tissue, I had something better than revenge. I have the best of your bad situation. I am like the roach, the rock, the mountain. I will not die. I will not break. I will not move. Face it. You'll go to your grave knowing you never had what it took to stop me.