“Whenever the masses seized political power, then it was happiness rather than truth and beauty that mattered.” — Aldous Huxley 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
The question of whether one has one's own political power or goes to work for someone else is not only a feminist… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
His [the President's] office is anything he has the sagacity and force to make it. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Political power means the capacity to regulate national life through national representatives. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The challenge remains. On the other side are formidable forces: money, political power, the major media. On our side are the people… — Howard Zinn 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
“If moral truths do not exist as a foundation for law, then law itself becomes merely a system of raw political power… — Scott Klusendorf Copy Share Image
Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Catholicism is more than a religion, it is a political power. Therefore I'm led to believe there will be no peace in… — Oliver Cromwell Copy Share Image
The church, inserted and active in human society and in history, does not exist in order to exercise political power or to… — Claudio Hummes Copy Share Image
“I wanted to believe that as generations turned over, those coming into economic and political power would build a different, better, more… — Anna Wiener Copy Share Image
“The answer lay not in faith but in another factor that created trouble for Islam from the very beginning: political power.” — Mustafa Akyol 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
Using political power, the elite can induce local authorities to facilitate enclosure and privatisation of land, water, and other hitherto public amenities.… — Guy Standing 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
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
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
“Legitimacy is the elixir of political power. "The strongest is never strong enough to be the master", Jean-Jaques Rousseau observed, "unless he… — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
“There is no history of mankind, there is only an indefinite number of histories of all kinds of aspects of human life.… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
“The issues the Panthers organized around fifty years ago are still with us. Our justice system is unjust. Police conduct in nonwhite… — Bobby Seale Copy Share Image
Private property creates for the individual a sphere in which he is free of the state. It sets limits to the operation… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“The national unity of a free people depends upon a sufficiently even balance of political power to make it impracticable for the… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
The question is, how do you stop the power elite from doing as much damage to you as possible? That comes through… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
An ethic of maternalism was central to the utopianism of 19th century feminists. I don't think that today's women see motherhood as… — Clare Wright Copy Share Image
“Our world isn’t about ideology anymore. It’s about complexity. We live in a complex bureaucratic state with complex laws and complex business… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
Theologians will protest that the story of Abraham sacrificing Issac should not be taken as literal fact. And the appropriate response is… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
You can use a biography to examine political power, but only if you pick the right guy. — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
Nowhere has the political power of coal been more obvious than in presidential campaigns. — Jeff Goodell Copy Share Image
You can't keep changing the rules based upon who holds political power. — Matthew Dowd Copy Share Image
“People turned against each other cannot turn against those responsible.” — DaShanne Stokes Copy Share Image
At EMILY's List, we're in the business of expanding the political power of women. — Ellen Malcolm Copy Share Image
It is not the qualified voters, but the qualified voters who choose to vote, that constitute political power. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The Church is not a political power, nor a political party, but rather a moral reality, a moral force. — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
I do not respect the Dalai Lama. He's a political power broker. The Dalai Lama is not honorable to me. — Ashin Wirathu Copy Share Image