Quotes About Power

Public influence is the real government of the world.

Government is essentially the negation of liberty.

Freedom for the government is enslavement for the people. When the government is free the people are enslaved. When the government is contained then the people are free.

Within the next hundred years...nationhood as we know it will be obsolete; all states will recognize a single, global authority... National sovereignty wasn't such a great idea after all.

Revolt is not reform, and one revolutionary administration is not good government.

Now look! That damned cowboy is president of the United States!

I talked about the barriers created by monopolies. I said that it was the role of government to break up these monopolies and that we couldn't do it alone.

Rulers who wished to subvert the public liberty, may have found an established Clergy convenient auxiliaries. A just Government instituted to secure & perpetuate it needs them not.

No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition.

It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States.

The king reigns but does not govern.

When Tarquin the Proud was asked what was the best mode of governing a conquered city, he replied only by beating down with his staff all the tallest poppies in his garden.

Governments are not running the show anymore. Scumbag Entrepreneurs are, and they have a harsh and ruthless agenda.

The question isn't whether we 'need' guns. It's wether the government should have a monopoly on force

If you want a Big Brother, you get all that comes with it.

Of course the biggest mafia in Russia has always been the government; in Soviet times, the Communist Party, and now a circle of former KGB and FSB.

The legislative powers of government reach actions only and not opinions.

The government is not God. It does not have the right to take away that which it can't return even if it wants to.

It is bad governments, not bad people, who cause revolutions.

By adopting programs to distribute substantial amounts of income, a nation guarantees that its government will become more powerful and invasive in other ways.

No bank should be allowed to become so big that it can blackmail governments.

In addition to their power over government based on government financing and personal influence, bankers could steer governments in ways they wished them to go by other pressures.

At the end of a century that has seen the evils of communism, Nazism and other modern tyrannies, the impulse to centralize power remains amazingly persistent.

Everyone thinks the Chinese government selected me. Never ever. I was selected by Herzog and de Meuron.