Power is not a matter of one dominant individual or institutions, but instead manifests in interconnected, contradictory sites where regimes of knowledge… — Dean Spade Copy Share Image
Unless the people can choose their leaders and rulers, and can revoke their choice at intervals long enough to test their measuresby… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Hey, this is Europe. We took it from nobody; we won it from the bare soil that the ice left. The bones… — Ken MacLeod Copy Share Image
Moses is the keystone to every man's ethical code. He was the first man of record in history to conceive of the… — Charlton Heston Copy Share Image
My great-grandfather Melvin had been a carpenter - so was my father - and they taught me the value of tools: saws,… — Yusef Komunyakaa Copy Share Image
And liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people who have a right from the frame of their nature… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Machiavelli says that if as a ruler you accept that your every action must pass moral scrutiny, you will without fail be… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
Meiklejohn's position is that free speech in a democracy is not an absolute flowing from the boundless source of some presumed 'natural… — Max Lerner Copy Share Image
Children should not be coddled in their intellectual training any more than in their physical; and though the studies should be made… — Arthur Lynch Copy Share Image
It is an ancient belief, going back to classical antiquity, that specialization of any kind is illiberal in a freeman. A man… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
The administration of government lies in getting proper men. Such men are to be got by means of the ruler's own character.… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Heaven is weary of the luxury of China. I shall remain in the wilderness of the north. I shall return to simplicity… — Genghis Khan Copy Share Image
Many people are quick to say that we are not recognized by Muslims in the East . And I start with the… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
Let us hope our weapons are never needed -but do not forget what the common people knew when they demanded the Bill… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The hundred parts of the body are all complete in their places. Which should one prefer? Do you like them all equally?… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
How do I know that loving life is not a delusion? How do I know that in hating death I am not… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Gradually, by selective breeding, the congenital differences between rulers and ruled will increase until they become almost different species. A revolt of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Listen to these words of [apostle] Paul: "We war not against flesh and blood, but against principalities and powers, and the rulers… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
God is alive. Magic is afoot. God is alive. Magic is afoot. God is afoot. Magic is alive. Alive is afoot. Magic… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
The imperative to develop new technologies and implement them on a heroic scale no longer seems like the childish preoccupation of a… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
For most of human history, the main goal of states has been to conquer land and to achieve glory for their rulers,… — Geoff Mulgan Copy Share Image
For over seven years the United States has been occupying the lands of Islam in the holiest of places, the Arabian Peninsula,… — Osama bin Laden Copy Share Image
It is manifest therefore that they who have sovereign power, are immediate rulers of the church under Christ, and all others but… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
I place economy among the first and most important virtues and public debt as the greatest dangers to be feared. To preserve… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I heard that senior officials in China and the United States were discussing whether to encourage a coup in North Korea to… — Kim Jong-un Copy Share Image
An annual or frequent choice of Magistrates, who in a year, or in a few years, are again left upon a level… — Clinton Rossiter Copy Share Image
There may or may not be a Supreme Ruler of the universe-but we are certain that man exists, and we believe that… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Phronimos, possessing practical wisdom . But the only virtue special to a ruler is practical wisdom; all the others must be possessed,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“The truth is, one who seeks to achieve freedom by petitioning those in power to give it to him has already failed,… — Larken Rose Copy Share Image
The Ottoman Empire . . . The rulers in Turkey were fortunately so corrupt that they left people alone pretty much -… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There are some whose only reason for inciting war is to use it as a means to exercise their tyranny over their… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
In seeking for justice men seek for the mean or neutral, for the law is the mean. Again, customary laws have more… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I was brought up in a very religious household and did a lot of praying throughout a big part of my life… — Paul Feig Copy Share Image
I killed you once", the Lord Ruler said, turning back to Kelsier. "You tried", Kelsier replied, his voice loud and firm, carrying… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“That’s often the problem with rulers. They move people with their words, and because they do, they believe that they can use… — L.E. Modesitt Jr Copy Share Image
The house of representatives ... can make no law, which will not have its full operation on themselves and their friends, as… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Who does not know that kings and rulers sprang from men who were ignorant of God, who assumed because of blind greed… — Pope Gregory VII Copy Share Image
They say that generally, rulers - dictators - tend to be short, like me. It gives them an inferiority complex; when they… — Vladimir Voinovich Copy Share Image
There is a Ruler above, and His Providence guides all things. He is our Friend and has plenty of work for all… — David Livingstone Copy Share Image
National Socialist Germany wishes for peace because it recognises the simple fact that no war would be likely to substantially to ameliorate… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image