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Power Quotes by Thomas Sowell
- So many idealistic political movements for a better world have ended in mass-murdering dictatorships. Giving leaders enough power to create 'social justice' is giving them…
- Neither your life nor my life, nor the future of this country, will be affected in the slightest by whether Linda Tripp is naughty or…
- Politicians are forever coming up with 'solutions' to virtually every imaginable imperfection in life. But, if we give them more power and more of our…
- Lofty talk about 'social justice' or 'fairness' boils down to greatly expanded powers for politicians, since those pretty words have no concrete definition. They are…
- Those government officials who want more power are not going to stop unless they get stopped.
- Once you buy the argument that some segment of the citizenry should lose their rights, just because they are envied or resented, you are putting…
- When we hear about rent control or gun control, we may think about rent or guns but the word that really matters is 'control.' That…
- France has never gotten over the fact that it was once a great power and is now just a great nuisance.
- Government's power to bully people who have broken no law is dangerous to all of us.
- Fairness' is one of the great mantras of the left. Since everyone has his own definition of fairness, that word is a blank check for…
- Those who wrote the Constitution clearly understood that power is dangerous and needs to be limited by being separated - separated not only into the…
- A recent poll showed that nearly half the American public believes that the government should redistribute wealth. That so many people are so willing to…
- Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power…
- Everyone may be called "comrade," but some comrades have the power of life and death over other comrades.
- Clearly, only very unequal intellectual and moral standing could justify having equality imposed, whether the people want it or not, as Dworkin suggests, and only…
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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