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
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 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
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
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
Until philosophers rule as kings or those who are now called kings and leading men genuinely and adequately philosophise, that is, until… — Plato Copy Share Image
Not long ago, if you wanted to seize political power in a country you had merely to control the army and the… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Most people just aren't clear-eyed about the rural South. We think that the urban centers are the problem, and the rural areas… — Jesmyn Ward 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
If China stood on an equal basis with other nations, she could compete freely with them in the economic field and be… — Sun Yat-sen Copy Share Image
Democratic governments are not delivering on their promises, which is partly due to the fact that governments are less powerful than they… — Mary Robinson 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
“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
“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
“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
But veteran lawmakers torn apart by PTSD don't have a choice about being Exhibit A in the case against Washington politics. When… — Leon Kass 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
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
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
“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 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
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
It would be catastrophic if one day these fundamentalists Christians gain enough political power to enforce their literal understanding of Mosaic Law. — Mel White Copy Share Image
We live in a time when complex ethical questions are easily subordinated to the demands of efficiency, profit maximization, and maintenance or… — Randal Marlin Copy Share Image
You will have to go through 15, 20, 50 years of civil wars and national struggles not only to bring about a… — Karl Marx 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
In England pensions used to be given to aristocrats, because aristocrats had political influence, in order to corrupt them. Here pensions are… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
“Politics? Check out a book on thermodynamics. All the rules apply. What you're talking about is essentially energy, or the absence of… — Nickolas Butler Copy Share Image
We who didn't inherit political power nor are made to acquire riches like nothing better than that which expands and solidifies the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
