People Quote by Charles Kennedy

In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The ruling power within, when it is in its natural state, is so related to outer circumstances that it easily changes to accord with…

— Marcus Aurelius

Power is not a matter of one dominant individual or institutions, but instead manifests in interconnected, contradictory sites where regimes of knowledge and practice…

— Dean Spade

In a democracy there is a centralization of governmental power in a simple majority.

— Anonymous

It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The world is not going into concentric blocs of power. It is actually going into a diffusion of power with more centres of decision-making…

— William Hague

“There are only four ways in which a ruling group can fall from power. Either it is conquered from without, or it governs so…

— George Orwell

The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more…

— Vaclav Havel

In the sense that you're not at the centre of power, like a president or prime minister of a major power, everyone is marginalised;…

— Peter Singer

“The process of political centralization can actually lead to a form of absolutism, as the king and his associates can crush other powerful groups…

— Daron Acemoğlu

Behaviour that's admired is the path to power among people everywhere.

— Seamus Heaney

To centralize power in the name of freedom is akin to putting a crime syndicate in charge of rooting out corruption. It is the…

— Llewellyn Rockwell