Quotes About Power

All governments are, to a certain extent, a treaty with the Devil.

The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.

When you put your faith in big government, you end up an apologist for mass murder.

If I had to choose between government without newspapers, and newspapers without government, I wouldn't hesitate to choose the latter

I don't know of any government leaders that are killers.

Sooner or later, a society of sheep must create a government of wolves.

We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens.

We shall have world government whether you like it or not, by conquest or consent.

Being on President Nixon's enemies list was the highest single honor I've ever received. Who knows who's listening to me now and what government list I'm on?

Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich.

You don't want lopsided government. You don't want one side running roughshod over the other.

A great writer is, so to speak, a secret government in his country

An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.

The request of industry to government is as modest as that of Diogenes to Alexander: Get out of my light.

Everything you heard about me is true. . . . I am not a free marketer. . . . I believe in the heavy hand of government.

Part of the reason that the government's fear mongering is succeeding is because so many people are so ignorant, that it is easier for government to frighten people in submission.

It is impossible to bargain collectively with the government.

Americans accept that gangsters are running the government.

The cure for capitalism's failing would require that a government would have to rise above the interests of one class alone.

We're against the state, not government. The state just happens to monopolize the government.

Many people around the President have sizeable egos before entering government, some with good reason. Their new positions will do little to moderate their egos.

The spirit of rebellion is present in every great city, and the great task of wise government is to keep it dormant, for if it wakes it is a torrent which no dam can hold back.

The capitalist class rules but does not govern: it contents itself with ruling the government.

Greed is at the bottom of most of the wrong-doing with which government has to deal.