Political Power Quotes
125 Political Power quotes by 108 unique authors
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A Libertarian society of unfettered individualism spreads its benefits to virtually everyone - not just those who have the resources to seize political power.
— Harry Browne
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I think that white women are more apt to read laterally. So I think there's some strong identification for women, and their political and social…
— Sherman Alexie
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In a democracy, supposedly we hold power by what we do at the ballot box, so therefore the more we know about political power the…
— Robert Caro
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All wars come to an end, at least temporarily. But the authority acquired by the state hangs on; political power never abdicates.
— Frank Chodorov
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No individual or private group or private organization has the legal power to initiate the use of physical force against other individuals or groups and…
— Ayn Rand
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Economic freedom is an essential requisite for political freedom. By enabling people to cooperate with one another without coercion or central direction, it reduces the…
— Milton Friedman
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Try this thought experiment. Pretend you're a tyrant. Among your many liberty-destroying objectives are extermination of blacks, Jews and Catholics. Which would you prefer, a…
— Walter E. Williams
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Concentrated political power is the most dangerous thing on earth.
— Rudolph Rummel
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You can use a biography to examine political power, but only if you pick the right guy.
— Robert Caro
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The day that this country ceases to be free for irreligion it will cease to be free for religion - except for the sect that…
— Robert H. Jackson
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To enable consensus politics to develop we need to empower people where they live. This means devolving financial resources and political power down to the…
— Mairead Corrigan
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You will have to go through 15, 20, 50 years of civil wars and national struggles not only to bring about a change in society…
— Karl Marx
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All political power comes from the barrel of a gun. The communist party must command all the guns, that way, no guns can ever be…
— Mao Zedong
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All political power, all power as such, is stupid. Don't rush after it, don't be ambitious, because all ambition collects dust and only dust. If…
— Rajneesh
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...it was always our view that in order to attain this [proletarian revolution] and the other far more important aims of the future social revolution,…
— Friedrich Engels
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Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated.
— Andrew Jackson
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It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creeds into law if it acquires the political power to do…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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The combination of economic and political power in the same hands is a sure recipe for tyranny.
— Milton Friedman
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The supremacy of Parliament and the embedding of property rights in Common Law put political power in the hands of men anxious to exploit the…
— Douglass North
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Viewed as a means to the end of political freedom, economic arrangements are important because of their effect on the concentration or dispersion of power.…
— Milton Friedman
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The necessity of reciprocal checks in the exercise of political power, by dividing and distributing it into different depositories, and constituting each the guardian of…
— George Washington
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While the Christian faith clearly teaches that believers are to be involved as good citizens in the state, nevertheless, it is obvious why so many…
— J.P. Moreland
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I try to do stories that make a difference -- stories that affect the way people think, stories that people need to hear -- and…
— Ann Curry
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It may come as a surprise to some academics, but there is a marked relationship between economic power and political power.
— Michael Pare
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In 1986, Tanton published an article in which he argued: `To govern is to populate ... Will the present majority peaceably hand over its political…
— John Tanton
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