Quotes About Power

The problem with capitalism is that we have a global theology without morality, without a Bible. And that's dangerous, he warns - we're not going to be able to exist in a global context if we are the bastards of our business.

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It's our faith that activates the power of God.

I think it's a much more consistent and reasoned approach to distrust everything that comes from the government, and everything that comes from multi-national globalists, and everything that comes from the media and talk show hosts, and everything that comes from mega-charitable organizations. And why do I seem to have such a prejudice against the empire guys? Because power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Historians tell us that Talleyrand once told Napoleon, "You can do anything with bayonets, Sire, except sit on them." In the language of the court this meant that obedience to the law ultimately depended on cooperation, not force.

Touch not the flute when drums are sounding around; when fools have the word, the wise will be silent.

They don't need the support of the majority. Sometimes all that's needed is a group of people loud enough and influential enough to to change the world and make it the way they want it to be. It doesn't even have to be a huge group, as long as some of them establish their own personal preferences as the only real truth and make enough noise to give the impression that the forgotten, neglected masses are behind them.

Discover the force of the skies O Men: once recognised it can be put to use.

The worst kind of tyrant was the one who once had been the victim.

It must be pretty awful for a white man to learn that one of the things wrong with this society is that it is not based on dollars directly or alone, but dollars denied men who are black so dollars can go into the pockets of men who are white. It must make white men ponder a kind of weakness that will make them deny work to black men so that work can be done by men who are white.

We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution is designed only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for any other.

Without the pen of Paine , the sword of Washington would have been wielded in vain.

If worthless men are sometimes at the head of affairs, it is, I believe, because worthless men are at the tail and the middle

When legislature is corrupted, the people are undone.

Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.

The jaws of power are always open to devour, and her arm is always stretched out, if possible, to destroy the freedom of thinking, speaking, and writing.

Admire and adore the Author of the telescopic universe, love and esteem the work, do all in your power to lessen ill, and increase good, but never assume to comprehend.

No man who ever held the office of president would congratulate a friend on obtaining it.

Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

The nation which will not adopt an equilibrium of power must adopt a despotism. There is no other alternative.

God is willing to suffer to get what He wants; evil is not.

One's relationship with money is lifelong, it colors one's sense of identity, it shapes one's attitude to other people, it connects and splits generations; money is the arena in which greed and generosity are played out, in which wisdom is exercised and folly committed. Freedom, desire, power, status, work, possession: these huge ideas that rule life are enacted, almost always, in and around money.

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He liked to bewilder his pupils, it was a form of tyranny.