The abuse of political power is not as important as the loss of lives. Plus there is a process for curing the… — Babatunde Fashola Copy Share Image
When economic power became concentrated in a few hands, then political power flowed to those possessors and away from the citizens, ultimately… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“See, because being Cool is obviously the most important thing on earth. It’s more important than getting a job, or having a… — Ned Vizzini Copy Share Image
Long Island is shaped the way it is largely because of Robert Moses. Long Island is a perfect example of how political… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
President Obama compared himself to Gandhi and Nelson Mandela in the struggle to bring about change. The comparison is flawed. They spent… — Argus Hamilton Copy Share Image
If the Socialism is Authoritarian; if there are Governments armed with economic power as they are now with political power; if, in… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“If Jesus viewed the desire to acquire political power to be a temptation of the devil, why do so many American Christians… — Keith Giles Copy Share Image
Islam has some of the best defenses against other god viruses and has the potential to be more parasitically aggressive when consolidating… — Darrel Ray Copy Share Image
To enable consensus politics to develop we need to empower people where they live. This means devolving financial resources and political power… — Mairead Corrigan Copy Share Image
If welfare and equality are to be primary aims of law, some people must necessarily possess a greater power of coercion in… — Tibor R. Machan Copy Share Image
“Economic freedom is an essential requisite for political freedom. By enabling people to cooperate with one another without coercion or central direction,… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
“He used to say that a true rōnin did not seek fame or profit, did not curry favor with the powerful, did… — Eiji Yoshikawa Copy Share Image
“It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
All of the government's monetary, economic and political power, as well as its extensive propaganda machinery, will be enlisted in a constant… — Irwin Schiff Copy Share Image
I think art is the only political power, the only revolutionary power, the only evolutionary power, the only power to free humankind… — Joseph Beuys Copy Share Image
A world where Congressmen spend 30 to 70 percent of their time raising money from a tiny, tiny fraction of the 1%… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
“The Supreme Court, the final arbiter of legal conflicts, reviews, acts of the executive and Congress. With this power, the Court is… — Marites Dañguilan Vitug Copy Share Image
“In a society in which nearly everybody is dominated by somebody else's mind or by a disembodied mind, it becomes increasingly difficult… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“Definition: a pathocracy isfrom Greek pathos, “feeling, pain, suffering”; and kratos, “rule.” A totalitarian form of government in which absolute political power… — Cara St.Louis Copy Share Image
Radicals, on the other hand, want to advance from the jungle of laissez-faire capitalism to a world worthy of the name of… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
“Europe’s war against debtor countries was turning into class war, which always ends up being waged on the political battlefield. One financial… — Michael Hudson 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
“Fundamental to a radical and lesbian feminist politics is the understanding that 'the personal is political'. This phrase has two interrelated meanings.… — Sheila Jeffreys Copy Share Image
“And the extraordinary thing is that according to these texts all powers, all the power and glory of the kingdoms, all that… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
The day that this country ceases to be free for irreligion it will cease to be free for religion - except for… — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
“if an individual in a position of political power is a psychopath, he or she can create an epidemic of psychopathology in… — Andrzej Lobaczewski Copy Share Image
The first thing I would do would be to move forward with an agenda to make sure that we give D.C. the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“The more we're thrown into conflict with each other through engineered distrust, the less able we are to unite against those responsible.” — DaShanne Stokes Copy Share Image
Our courts provide a neutral forum for the adjudication of disputes under the law, not based on economic or political power, on… — Jon Kyl Copy Share Image
I have come to see more and more that one of the most decisive steps that the Negro can take is that… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Sometimes people with strong ideology, whether left-wing or right-wing, refuse to do something simply because they believe it is wrong, when doing… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
Authoritarian governments are now trying to ensure that the increasingly free flow of ideas and information through cyberspace fuels their economies without… — Ian Bremmer Copy Share Image
Global interconnectedness has led to the emergence of a new political power, that of consumers and their associations. It is good for… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Economic freedom is an essential requisite for political freedom. By enabling people to cooperate with one another without coercion or central direction,… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
“Similarly, those who have been weaned off the self-aggrandizing attractions of political power are those who can then best be entrusted with… — R.W.L. Moberly Copy Share Image
All wars come to an end, at least temporarily. But the authority acquired by the state hangs on; political power never abdicates. — Frank Chodorov Copy Share Image
“Economic institutions that create incentives for economic progress may simultaneously redistribute income and power in such a way that a predatory dictator… — Daron Acemoğlu Copy Share Image
I believe that political power exercises itself through the mediation of a certain number of institutions which look as if they have… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“Growth thus moves forward only if not blocked by the economic losers who anticipate that their economic privileges will be lost and… — Daron Acemoğlu Copy Share Image
I personally believe that those who are leaders with political power over the world will be forced some day, sooner or later,… — Alva Myrdal Copy Share Image
