Quotes About Power

Government is waging war against the people.

I want my son to grow up in a place where the people are more powerful than the government and not the other way around.

The first sign of tyranny is government's complicity in privatizing the commons for private gain.

All the public business in Congress now connects itself with intrigues, and there is great danger that the whole government will degenerate into a struggle of cabals.

Governments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them.

The law is an opinion with a gun.

People live with the illusion that we have a democratic system, but it's only the outward form of one. In reality we live in a plutocracy, a government of the rich.

There's never been a good government.

War is just one more big government program.

Watergate provides a model case study of the interaction and powers of each of the branches of government. It also is a morality play with a sad and dramatic ending.

A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers.

Royalty is a government in which the attention of the nation is concentrated on one person doing interesting actions.

The corporations don't have to lobby the government anymore. They are the government.

The government is so out of control. It is so bloated and infested with fraud and deceit and corruption and abuse of power.

When the people are afraid of the government, that's tyranny. But when the government is afraid of the people, that's liberty.

We must have government, but we must watch them like a hawk.

Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

We live in a regime built on force and lies. In essence, it's the same here as in Uzbekistan, except the government here is better at presenting itself to the outside world.

Our government is a bird with two right wings... They're devoted to the perpetuation & spread of corporate capitalism.

I cannot help concurring with the opinion that an absolute democracy, no more than absolute monarchy, is to be reckoned among the legitimate forms of government.

Only government can cause inflation, preserve monopoly, and punish enterprise.

Reform is for people who have government connections, revolution is for the people!

A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.

After a lifetime of war-watching, I see war as an endemic human disease, and governments are the carriers.