Quotes About Power

Those who write the editorials and those who write the columns, they simply are unaccountable. They're free to impose their cultural politics in the name of freedom of the press.

As if one could do what one wanted with one's own body!

History is full of examples of people who clamp down after they began to enjoy too much freedom. Freedom can lead to instability, anarchy, and confusion. So there can be a moral counter-revolution.

I am freedom and I will eat your heart

The point is less what we choose than that we have the power to make a choice.

Collectivism, as an intellectual power and a moral ideal, is dead. But freedom and individualism, and their political expression, capitalism, have not yet been discovered.

Better freedom with a crust, than slavery with every luxury.

If dictatorship is the concentration of power, freedom consists in its diffusion.

There is value in being free and spontaneous but the greatest power comes from seeing and using what results from that freedom.

Those who lack the capacity to achieve much in an atmosphere of freedom will clamor for power.

But Freedom Strike was actually quite cool.

It is easier to rule others than to keep from being ruled oneself.

A man unconsciously imagines that where he is strong, where he feels most thoroughly alive, the element of his freedom must lie.

Freedom is within oneself. But to get beyond the thoughts and desires requires power.

It is hard to have a Southern overseer; it is worse to have a Northern one; but worst of all when you are yourself the slave-driver.

To me, freedom means having the power, the inherent right, the capacity and the ability to make choices that honour who I am.

The dead hand has too long hampered the freedom of the living.

The secret point of money and power in America is neither the things that money can buy nor power for power's sake but absolute personal freedom, mobility, privacy.

The conflict between the principle of liberty and the fact of slavery is coming gradually to an issue. Slavery has now the power, and falls into convulsions at the approach of freedom.

Action is your power pusher to new behaviors that open your heart to freedom.

Small tyrants, threatened by big, sincerely believethey love liberty.

It is a tragedy beyond the power of language to convey when what has been imposed on women by force becomes a standard of freedom for women: and all the women say it is so.

Government should never be able to do anything you can't do. If you can't steal from your neighbor, you can't send the government to steal for you.

America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests.