Quotes About Power

Government! Three-fourths parasitic and the rest stupid fumbling—

He shall rule them with a rod of iron. —Revelations II:25

That we were slaves I had known all my life—and nothing could be done about it. True, we weren't bought and sold—but as long as Authority held monopoly over what we had to have and what we could sell to buy it, we were slaves.

sometimes I think that government is an inescapable disease of human beings. But it may be possible to keep it small and starved and inoffensive

he does not control is to behave with blind idiocy.

Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and their freedoms.

A managed democracy is a wonderful thing, Manuel, for the managers.

joking. A slave needs privileges to keep him quiet.

What I fear most are affirmative actions of sober and well- intentioned men, granting to government powers to do something that appears to need doing.

Must be a yearning deep in human heart to stop other people from doing as they please. Rules, laws—always for other fellow.

Democrats were being rounded up, sentenced by drumhead courts-martial (provost's tribunals, they were called) and executed on the spot—laser, gunfire, some hangings.

I remember thinking, "Gosh, that's terrible!" and feeling sorry for the one Porteño in the ship. But B.A. wasn't my home and Terra was a long way off and I was very busy, as the attack on Klendathu, the Bugs' home planet, was mounted immediately after that and we spent the time to rendezvous strapped in our bunks, doped and unconscious, with the internal-gravity field of the Valley Forge off, to save power and give greater speed.

Must be a yearning deep in human heart to stop other people from doing as they please. Rules, laws—always for other fellow. A murky part of us, something we had before we came down out of trees, and failed to shuck when we stood up.

suspect it will be the harshest tyranny imaginable; majority rule gives the ruthless strong man plenty of elbow room to oppress his fellows.

Buras? da tüm iyi ailelerde olduÄŸu gibi anarÅŸi ve tiranl???n bir kar???m?d?r, demokrasiye yer yoktur.

A managed democracy is a wonderful thing, Manuel, for the managers . . . and its greatest strength is a 'free press' when 'free' is defined as 'responsible' and the managers define what is 'irresponsible.

government is a dangerous servant and a terrible master. You now have freedom—if you can keep it. But do remember that you can lose this freedom more quickly to yourselves than to any other tyrant.

like fire and fusion, government is a dangerous servant and a terrible master.

I'm electron pusher by trade;

V armádÄ› jsou jen dvÄ› velikosti - moc velká a moc malá.

I started to try to talk sense but was cut off by a giant voice from everywhere: "YOU ARE NOW BEING JUDGED!

Dominance of males over females seems to be one of the symptoms.

Any government that gets to be too big and too successful gets to be a nuisance. The Federation got that way—it started out decently enough—and now it has to be trimmed down to size. So that the citizens can enjoy some 'looseness'.

Distrust the obvious, suspect the traditional . . . for in the past mankind has not done well when saddling itself with governments