Quotes About Authority

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

It is not power that corrupts but fear.

Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.

Politics means striving to share power or striving to influence the distribution of power, either among states or among groups within a state.

Presidents are selected, not elected.

The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.

If we do not allow free thinking in chemistry or biology, why should we allow it in morals or politics?

I'm not really a fan of, like, rock stars, movie stars, people like that. I like politics.

Politics and church are the same. They keep the people in ignorance.

It is easier to run a revolution than a government.

Either one lives for politics or one lives off politics.

All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.

Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.

The only just government is the government that serves its citizens, not itself.

The universal methodology of the tyrant is always incrementalism.

Self-regulation stands in relation to regulation the way self-importance stands in relation to importance.

Government is too big and important to be left to the politicians.

Today it is infinitely easier to kill one million people than to control one million people.

The state remains, as it was in the beginning, the common enemy of all well-disposed, industrious and decent men.

Steal a little and they throw you in jail Steal a lot and they make you king.

Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.

The Constitution was not written to restrain the citizen's behavior, it was writtne to restrain the government's behavior.

Live like the Kennedy's, above the law.

If you took the most ardent revolutionary, vested him in absolute power, within a year he would be worse than the Tsar himself.