Quotes About Power

Man is about the same, in the main, whether with despotism, or whether with freedom.

The governments of the great States have two instruments for keeping the people dependent, in fear and obedience: a coarser, the army; and a more refined, the school.

[I]f you want instant, reflexive support for the US government's police and military powers, MSNBC is the place to turn these days.

Government is not peaceful; it is inherently coercive.

No government can continue good, but under the control of the people.

When is conduct a crime, and when is a crime not a crime? When "Somebody Up There" - a monarch, a dictator, a Pope, a legislator - so decrees.

American families cannot compete with billionaires. Our involvement in government should not be dependent on our bank account balances

The grossest, the cruelest, the most selfish, the most easily pervertible and perverted thing in this world, is government.

Governments, especially democratic ones, are short-term and nationalistic.

I'd shrink government in a minute, if I could shrink GM, Bank of America, and all these immoral corporations that operate by an undemocratic code, with no soul and no conscience.

Government arrogates to itself that it alone forms men. Everybody knows that government never began anything. It is the whole world that thinks and governs.

Popular government has not yet been proved to guarantee, always and everywhere, good government.

The Syrian government is weak today in 2017, but it's been gathering strength. And I think it's likely that, in the next few years, you will see the Syrian government retake much of Syria.

I've always been about less government.

Like the government, corporations must be bound with the chains of the Constitution, and especially of the Bill of Rights.

Government is the enemy of conservatism and freedom.

Government governed least is government governed best.

In this case, the government will essentially be run by the people who are running it now. The top level [Barack] Obama appointees will leave by inauguration day.

if you want to achieve immortality, see what you can do about getting yourself turned into a Pentagon program.

The secret ballot makes a secret government; and a secret government is a secret band of robbers and murderers.

Our nonviolence vis-?-vis the British Government has been the nonviolence of the weak.

An hereditary aristocracy... will change the form of our governments from the best to the worst in the world.

I wrote a study about this question, The Lessons of October, which served as a pretext for my elimination from the government.

The problem is that when government controls the economy, those who can influence government keep winning, and everybody else just stays the same.