When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power. — Maggie Gallagher 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
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
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
“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
“Creative destruction redistributes not simply income and wealth, but also political power,” — Daron Acemoğlu 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
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
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
Are we prepared to take on the enormous political power of the billionaire class or do we continue to slide into economic… — Bernie Sanders 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
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
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
“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
“Not one little fellow need fear that he will be forbidden to pluck his shining grape from the cluster of political Power,… — Alfred de Vigny Copy Share Image
“He could have disembarked in one of the world's greatest cities. People would have said, "Right time, right place, look what fate… — Kyle Idleman Copy Share Image
“Neither the fanatics nor the faint-hearted are needed. And our duty as a Party is not to our Party alone, but to… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“The extraordinary value of the I Ching is that it reveals the secrets of dynamic natural law. Working with its changes opens… — Patricia E. West Copy Share Image
“At the present time, political power is everywhere constituted on insufficient foundations. On the one hand it emanates from the so-called divine… — Edouard Schure 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
“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
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
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
His [the President's] office is anything he has the sagacity and force to make it. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Nowhere has the political power of coal been more obvious than in presidential campaigns. — Jeff Goodell 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
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
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