Quotes About Power

I get a little nauseated, perhaps, when I hear the phrase 'freedom of the press' used as freely as it is, knowing that a large part of our proprietorial press is not free at all.

Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.

We must do away with all newspapers. A revolution cannot be accomplished with freedom of the press.

When we truly recognize that our beliefs are that powerful-we hold the key to freedom.

Freedom is not possible without authority - otherwise it would turn into chaos and authority is not possible without freedom - otherwise it would turn into tyranny.

Once you've tasted freedom, it stays in your heart and no one can take it. Then, you can be more powerful than a whole country.

We can't allow the world's worst leaders to blackmail, threaten, hold freedom-loving nations hostage with the world's worst weapons.

Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression, because power, real power, comes from our conviction which produces action, uncompromising action.

No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.

For know that no one is free, except Zeus.

The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice.

Architecture and architectural freedom are above all a social issue that must be seen from inside a political structure, not from outside it.

A free and truly independent press - fiercely independent when necessary - is the red beating heart of freedom and democracy.

There is no subjection so perfect as that which keeps the appearance of freedom.

To begin with unlimited freedom is to end with unlimited despotism.

Nothing crushes freedom as substantially as a tank.

The most powerful single force in the world today is neither Communism nor Capitalism, neither the H-bomb nor the guided missile -- it is man's eternal desire to be free and independent.

Popular suffrage is in itself no guarantee of freedom. People can vote themselves into slavery.

The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they follow. Bigness means weakness.

Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means that we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats. We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee.

If people base their identity on identifying with authority, freedom causes anxiety. They must then conceal the victim in themselves by resorting to violence against others.

Collectivism and freedom are mortal enemies. Only one will survive

The only freedom supposed to be left to the masses is that of grazing on the ration of simulacra the system distributes to each individual.

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.