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
So long as free land exists, the opportunity for a competency exists, and economic power secures political power. — Frederick Jackson Turner Copy Share Image
When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power. — Maggie Gallagher Copy Share Image
“Whenever the masses seized political power, then it was happiness rather than truth and beauty that mattered.” — Aldous Huxley 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
“There is not one politician in Burundi who would not murder another for the sake of one hour of political power.” — UN Special Appointment to Burundi Ahmed Ould-Abdallah 95 Copy Share Image
All political power comes from the barrel of either guns, pussy, or opium pipes, and people seem to like it that way. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Rehearse death. To say this is to tell a person to rehearse his freedom. A person who has learned how to die… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Among the reasons that you go into journalism, I suppose, are some rather idealistic, even foolish reasons. In my case one of… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
“Individuals watching Yiannopoulos on YouTube do not have the same political potential as when they are physically grouped.” — Mark Bray Copy Share Image
There will be no end to the troubles of states,Or of humanity itself,Till philosophers become kings in this world,Or till those we… — Plato Copy Share Image
Investment that only goes to enrich an already wealthy elite bent on monopolizing both economic and political power cannot contribute toward égalité… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
All political power comes from the barrel of a gun. The communist party must command all the guns, that way, no guns… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
... woman's narrow and puristattitude toward life makes hera greater danger to liberty wherever she has political power. Man has long overcome… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“The Germans are notably literate; and they had very fine technical schools. Their literacy enabled them to read "Mein Kampf," and their… — Isabel Paterson Copy Share Image
The rise of the presidency began with the Louisiana Purchase, which in 1803 doubled the land mass of the United States. History… — Noah Feldman Copy Share Image
Try this thought experiment. Pretend you're a tyrant. Among your many liberty-destroying objectives are extermination of blacks, Jews and Catholics. Which would… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
“He is a free man, not because is in a poition of political power and influence that you will never be able… — Evan Meekins Copy Share Image
“Religious people should always be wary of the ways in which political power is wielded and skeptical of how economic privileges are… — E.J. Dionne Jr 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
“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
“The national unity of a free people depends upon a sufficiently even balance of political power to make it impracticable for the… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
“There is no history of mankind, there is only an indefinite number of histories of all kinds of aspects of human life.… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
Private property creates for the individual a sphere in which he is free of the state. It sets limits to the operation… — Ludwig von Mises 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
“Of course, this is not an innocent activity—even though the tech companies disavow any responsibility for the material they publish and promote.… — Franklin Foer Copy Share Image
Theologians will protest that the story of Abraham sacrificing Issac should not be taken as literal fact. And the appropriate response is… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Our world isn’t about ideology anymore. It’s about complexity. We live in a complex bureaucratic state with complex laws and complex business… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
An ethic of maternalism was central to the utopianism of 19th century feminists. I don't think that today's women see motherhood as… — Clare Wright Copy Share Image
The framers, in their wisdom, designed the [political] system so that power's pretty disbursed. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.” — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image