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Power Quotes by Joseph Sobran
- We have been living amidst one of the great revolutions of human history, and we hardly know it: the penetration of the State into every…
- War has all the characteristics of socialism most conservatives hate: Centralized power, state planning, false rationalism, restricted liberties, foolish optimism about intended results, and blindness…
- Democracy has proved only that the best way to gain power over people is to assure the people that they are ruling themselves. Once they…
- There can be no such thing as "limited government," because there is no way to control an entity that in principle enjoys a monopoly of…
- By today’s standards King George III was a very mild tyrant indeed. He taxed his American colonists at a rate of only pennies per annum.…
- There has never been a humane communist regime. Marxism is inherently totalitarian. It recognizes no moral limits on the state. It’s the most convenient ideology…
- Wartime always brings expansions of state power, together with erosions of moral and constitutional standards.
- Power tempts even the best of men to take liberties with the truth.
- Not surprisingly, the federal judiciary nearly always rules in favor of the federal government. Judicial review, contrary to the assurances of its advocates, has hardly…
- At the end of a century that has seen the evils of communism, Nazism and other modern tyrannies, the impulse to centralize power remains amazingly…
- Some people don't mind a little constitutional sophistry in a good cause; and for liberals, centralizing all power in the federal government is always a…
- War nearly always serves as an occasion for serious expansions of state power and the destruction of legal protections
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- Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can… — Hannah Arendt
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- I'd take precision any day over power; as far as being tactical you know you have to see what's going on in… — Alexis Arguello
- Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and… — Aristotle
- The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do. — Aristotle
- The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching. — Aristotle
- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better. — Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo