Government is never more dangerous than when our desire to…

The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us

— Voltaire

An efficient government is dangerous in the hands of the wrong man. Sadly, the right sort of man never seems interested in the job.

— Nathan Myhrvold

The consensual seduction of the mainstream media by and with the government is one of the most dangerous toxins at work in America today.

— Bill Moyers

Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights; it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally…

— Ayn Rand

The Roman Catholics must know as well as we do that 'Popery' when encouraged by government has always been dangerous to the liberties of…

— Lord George Gordon

Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally…

— Ayn Rand

A government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed…

— Ayn Rand

A government is the most dangerous threat to man

— Ayn Rand

To the media, I have become a symbolic figure, critical of China. According to the government, I am a dangerous threat.

— Ai Weiwei

As thou directest the power, harm or advantage will follow, and the torrent that swept the valley may be led to turn a mill.

— Martin Farquhar Tupper

Thou hast not half that power to do me harm As I have to be hurt.

— William Shakespeare

The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

— Milton Friedman

Politicians have immense power to do harm to the economy. But they have very little power to do good.

— Walter E. Williams

“A man with power protects and serves those lesser than he. It is only the weak who use their power to do harm.”

— Rhys Ford

That which makes the man no worse than he was makes his life no worse: it has no power to harm, without or within.

— Marcus Aurelius