Quotes About Power

The American Founders recognized that the moment the government is authorized to start leveling the material possessions of the rich in order to have an "equal distribution of goods," the government thereafter has the power to deprive any of the people of their "equal" rights to enjoy their lives, liberties, and property.

Danger of Losing Constitutional Rights Furthermore, the Founders knew from experience that the loss of freedom through the gradual erosion of Constitutional principles is not always so obvious that the people can readily detect it. Madison stated: "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power, than by violent and sudden usurpations.... This danger ought to be wisely guarded against."5

Marx and Engels accepted the fact that the remaking of the world will have to be a cruel and ruthless task and that it will involve the destruction of all who stand in the way.

Stalin's whole attitude toward life may be caught in a statement which he later made as he was rising to power: "To choose one's victim, to prepare one's plans minutely, to stake an implacable vengeance, and then go to bed ... there is nothing sweeter in the world.

It is a terrible and awesome thing when a man sets out to create all other men in his own image. Such became the goal and all-consuming ambition of Karl Marx.

When Karl Marx was asked what his objective in life was, he said, "To dethrone God and destroy capitalism!

When he laughed, respectable senators burst with laughter,And when he cried the little children died in the streets.

when the ego disappears, so does power over language.

Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.

True repentance says, "I cannot," and true faith adds, "But God, You can!

Perhaps the most obvious political effect of controlled news is the advantage it gives powerful people in getting their issues on the political agenda and defining those issues in ways likely to influence their resolution.

The assumption spreads that government best knows what is good for its people, when ultimately it does not.

artificial security of the state and all its conventions and institutions

Faith is raising the sail of our little boat until it is caught up in the soft winds above and picks up speed, not from anything within itself, but from the vast resources of the universe around us.

Writer and director Aislinn Clarke doesn't use the phrase elevated horror. But she has suggested that a difference does exist between something being "scary" and true, lingering horror. The creation of horror depends on upending convention and, she suggests, should "punch up" against those in power rather than "merely making monsters of those at the bottom

Money is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets.

Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered.

The value of money is that with it we can tell any man to go to the devil. It is the sixth sense which enables you to enjoy the other five.

Numbers are essential, but not absolutely essential to strength. For many churches are numerically strong but lamentably weak spiritually. Numbers, then, are no display of spiritual power or strength.

Publishing in magazine is an under-used route for authors to reach readers. As a former magazine editor, I understand the power of reaching the audience…With one article, I have reached millions of people.

He is a great simpleton who imagines that the chief power of wealth is to supply wants. In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it creates more wants than it supplies.

In my eye, men appear at their most powerful when they strain to reach that momentary perfection. Every muscle and sinew is taut, and for them there is nothing else except their bodies and the sensations. Fighting in concert, side by side, it is as if they storm the gates of Heaven demanding entry.

As you always taught me, men who think have proven to be the most dangerous of all over the course of history," I said. "So have you been a dangerous man?"" I laughed. "I would like to think so.

A king is but a foolish labourer Who wastes his blood to be another's dream. -from "Fergus and the Druid