Conscious Quote by Jacques Ellul

Wherever politics tries to be redemptive, it is promising too much. Where it wishes to do the work of God, it becomes not divine,…

— Anonymous

The time has come to knock off this religion business in American politics. There's no end to the mischief that can occur. It is…

— Lowell P. Weicker, Jr

People in power need to control others in order to maintain power. One of the ways to do that is to take that which…

— Jasmine Guy

It is now very clear that techniques of machine-human interfacing, pharmacology of the synthetic variety, all kinds of manipulative techniques, all kinds of data…

— Terence McKenna

Power is not just political. It can be cultural; it can be spiritual.

— Nancy Gibbs

unless a religion springs from within the people themselves, it is a weapon of the system.

— Rigoberta Menchu

... I suppose that the party or sect which is to do any work in the world must breathe its own peculiar atmosphere, speak…

— Rebecca Harding Davis

People have far more power than they realize, if they would only choose to use it.

— Jim Butcher

Whence, then, this worship of the past? The centuries are conspirators against the sanity and authority of the soul.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak; and that it is doing God's service…

— John Adams

The peasants of all lands recognize power and they salute it, whether it's good or evil.

— Andrei Codrescu

I don't put much stock in powers that people have to hurt others, in sorcery and all this nonsense. There are murders and there…

— Frederick Lenz