Quotes About Power

Wherefore being all of one mind, we do highly resolve that government of the grafted by the grafter for the grafter shall not perish from the earth.

Under the specious pretext of effecting 'the happiness of the whole community,' nearly all the wrongs and intrusions of government has been carried through.

The government burns down whole cities while the people are forbidden to light lamps.

Chinese central government doesn't need to even lead public opinion: it just selectively stops censorship. In other words, just as censorship is a political tool, so is the absence of censorship.

You've got to remember that it's a two horse race. So when the Government is doing badly the Opposition is doing better and vice versa.

Government is a necessary evil

Los Angeles County government is a "Soviet-style system," with too many people only sort of in charge and no person sufficiently at the helm to take responsibility.

I don't want the chair of the government because it will be controlled by the U.S. and I don't want to be controlled by the U.S.

If the government fails to listen to your demands, then you will decide what is best for you.

What is the government? Nothing, unless supported by opinion.

The true policy of government is to make use of aristocracy, but under the forms and in the spirit of democracy.

On one side the government, the other side the mob.

The Republican and Democratic Parties are only factions of the Government Party.

Governments don't control people like they used to.

The police force cannot be completely independent of the executive government.

The difference between corporations and governments is governments have a monopoly on force. It's a lot easier to vote with your feet or your wallet than it is to change a government with your vote.

Half the population hold that the government is run by a few big interests looking out for themselves, as polls regularly show.

It is easy to overthrow a government but very difficult to build a new one.

We're a country that abhors the government. From Reagan on, many people think the government is the enemy in the United States.

It will be said that great societies cannot exist without government.

The state, frankly, could care less. Historically, the state has been able to use any religious point of view for its own ends. . . . The examples of government misusing religion are endless.

The British government is a murder machine.

Benevolent, enlightened, wise dictators are the most efficient form of government. The problem is what comes afterwards.

Government is, and always has been, the greatest criminal threat to the peaceful members of society.