I spend all day figuring out how to beat the machine and knock the crap out of the political power structure. — Bella Abzug Copy Share Image
If I bring up political power, personal power, it sounds like they're my terms, and they're not. — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
We will use political power as a tool to improve the lives of the people. — Mayawati Copy Share Image
The framers, in their wisdom, designed the [political] system so that power's pretty disbursed. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Wealth aggregates and becomes political power. Simple as that. ‘Corporation’ is just the most recent name for it. — Daniel Suarez 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
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
“The sanctification of political power by Christianity is blasphemy; it is the negation of Christianity.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I do get a sense that there's a huge disconnect between the political powers and what's really happening, so right-wing conservatives can… — Anna Quindlen 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
“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
“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
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
Generally speaking, the less privileged groups in democratic society, as they become aware of their interests and their political power, will be… — Gunnar Myrdal Copy Share Image
“When the barons and local elites recognize that political power will be increasingly more centralized and that this process is hard to… — Daron Acemoğlu 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
“And finally: algorithmic modeling + global positioning + human scaling + computational speed = data geopolitics. Political power used to be measured… — Mark Jarzombek Copy Share Image
Is Christianity just another special-interest group, clawing for political power? Or, even if Christians are acting as God's spokesmen, must Christians always… — Gary North Copy Share Image
America's real plan is to fuel a civil war, while the national plan is for all Lebanese to live in peace with… — Hassan Nasrallah Copy Share Image
The competent leader of men cares little for the niceties of other peoples' characters: he cares much--everything--for the exterior uses to which… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
The necessity of reciprocal checks in the exercise of political power, by dividing and distributing it into different depositories, and constituting each… — George Washington Copy Share Image
More directly linked to the impact of technology, it involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled and directed society. Such a… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
Are we going to continue to yield personal liberties and community autonomy to the steady inexplicable centralization all political power or restore… — Douglas MacArthur 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
“Another threat, less overt but no less basic, confronts liberal democracy. More directly linked to the impact of technology, it involves the… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
“An apparently old and often cited dictum extolling the superiority of scholars over statesmen was attributed to the legendary grammarian of the… — Franz Rosenthal Copy Share Image
“The administrative and hierarchic aspects seem to be crucial in the evolution of belief systems. The truth is first revealed to all… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
“As we have seen, democracy is no guarantee that there will be pluralism. The contrast of the development of pluralistic institutions in… — Daron Acemoğlu Copy Share Image
“Military leadership is a journey, not a destination. It is continually challenged, and must continually prove it self anew against fresh obstacles.… — Timothy Zahn, Star Wars: Thrawn 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
“...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
“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