Quotes About Power

A fool is very dangerous when in power.

absolute liberty ... tends to corrupt absolutely.

I am sure that as soon as speech was invented, efforts to suppress and control it began, and that process of suppression continues unabated.

Freedom has nothing to do with having the right to vote for your oppressor; freedom is not having any form of oppression.

The real measure of our power is the freedom and opportunity we create for others.

Despotism can do without faith but freedom cannot.

Despotism sits nowhere so secure as under the effigy and ensigns of freedom.

The only thing money is good for is to buy your freedom.

We think we have got freedom of the press. When one millionaire has ten newspapers and ten million people have no newspapers - that is not freedom of the press.

When truth is no longer free, freedom is no longer real: the truths of the police are the truths of today.

Money equals freedom.

As our federal government has grown too large and too powerful, the real loss has been the freedom of people to govern their own lives and participate fully in the American dream.

The conjunction of ruling and dreaming generates tyranny.

An essential part of power is the freedom not to think too deeply

When I was in jail, I was a lot of people's favorite person. I practically ran the jail. I had more freedom than the police.

I think there is a danger that an environmental crisis can be used in precisely the same way as the terrorist threat can be used in terms of giving up freedom.

History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition.

He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.

If somebody else is making the rules for you, no matter how good the payoff is for you, you're being conned.

The breath of an aristocrat is the death rattle of freedom.

Politicians are always interested in people. Not that this is always a virtue. Fleas are interested in dogs.

Anarchy is the sure consequence of tyranny; for no power that is not limited by laws can ever be protected by them.

Democratic institutions form a system of quarantine for tyrannical desires.

We have to reinvest, I think, in the idea of articulacy as a form of personal human freedom and power.