“There is not one politician in Burundi who would not murder another for the sake of one hour of political power.” — UN Special Appointment to Burundi Ahmed Ould-Abdallah 95 Copy Share Image
“The sanctification of political power by Christianity is blasphemy; it is the negation of Christianity.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.” — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Any man who has ever tried to use political power for the common good has felt an awful sense of powerlessness. — Robert Casey Copy Share Image
“Creative destruction redistributes not simply income and wealth, but also political power,” — Daron Acemoğlu Copy Share Image
Once you've built the big machinery of political power, remember you won't always be the one to run it. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“It can be difficult to speak truth to power. Circumstances, however, have made doing so increasingly necessary.” — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
So long as free land exists, the opportunity for a competency exists, and economic power secures political power. — Frederick Jackson Turner Copy Share Image
“At the beginning a man was wealthy because he was powerful — now he is powerful because he has money. Intellect reaches… — Oswald Spengler Copy Share Image
The Clintons engage routinely in corrupt practices, mixing their political power with their nonprofit work to make themselves rich, while not standing… — Mercedes Schlapp Copy Share Image
I believe in a democracy and we live in a democracy. We have a titular head of state as the monarch but… — Jeremy Corbyn Copy Share Image
“Cyber trolls' deceptive manipulative, political power play, duplicity and devious hypocrisy cannot equate to true friendship.~ Angelica Hopes, K.H. Trilogy” — Angelica Hopes Copy Share Image
In America, economic, cultural and political power is dispersed. In the U.K., centralisation is a gift to the vested interests. — Steve Hilton Copy Share Image
Liberal criticism of George W. Bush's minority cabinet and staff selections reveals just how much the left has come to rely on… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
In human history who hold the reigns of political power, and there are some women who were very much a team player… — Jay Nordlinger Copy Share Image
I can very well say without hesitation that all those who have political power, even if they use it well have acquired… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
Today, the District of Columbia has more residents than at least two other states; Puerto Rico has more than 20. With numbers… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
Integration is the biggest con job ever pulled on any group of people, any nationality in the world. It was a plot… — James Meredith Copy Share Image
“Once she’d remarked, for example, that the problem, even for socialist countries, is that those people who are deeply committed to ideals… — Adelle Waldman Copy Share Image
One way we exercise political freedom is to vote for the candidate of our choice. Another way is to use our money… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
The supremacy of Parliament and the embedding of property rights in Common Law put political power in the hands of men anxious… — Douglass North Copy Share Image
Politics is noble; it is one of the highest forms of charity, as Paul VI used to say. We sully it when… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Around the world, we see the results of exploitation which destroys much without taking future generations into account. Protecting the world's forests;… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Enforced by genetics, sexual reproduction, perspective, and experience, the most manifest characteristic of human beings is their diversity. The freer an economy… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
“(After relaying horrific stories that have been shared in popular news.) All of these stories are true. The conflict has seen acts… — Jason K. Stearns Copy Share Image
“Chapter 4 Tyranny Is Tyranny Around 1776, certain important people in the English colonies made a discovery that would prove enormously useful… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“Finally, when growth comes under extractive political institutions but where economic institutions have inclusive aspects, as they did in South Korea, there… — Daron Acemoğlu Copy Share Image
“...The underlying motive for the French wars [of 1562-1598] was not religious, but dynastic. By the mid-16th century, the Valois family of… — Fiona MacDonald Copy Share Image
Spiritual methods are essential in Africa if you are going to survive politically. My cousin is the chief security officer for the… — Malidoma Patrice Some Copy Share Image
Capitalist exploitation and cartels and monopolies are the enemies of underdeveloped countries. On the other hand a regime which is completely oriented… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
“When, in the course of development, class distinctions have disappeared and all production has been concentrated in the hands of a vast… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“WE SAW HOW INCLUSIVE economic and political institutions emerge. But why do they persist over time? The history of the Black Act… — Daron Acemoğlu Copy Share Image
When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power. — Maggie Gallagher Copy Share Image
“Whenever the masses seized political power, then it was happiness rather than truth and beauty that mattered.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
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