Absolute Quote by Thomas Jefferson

It is simply an invariable truth in the history of politics, in the history of government, that whenever a new power is acquired in…

— Glenn Greenwald

“the illusion that power lies within the hands of the common man is more important than legitimate efficiency within the government.”

— Evan Meekins

“Absolute power could, as its defenders argued, be enlightened, beneficial, and benign. To liberals that was not enough. Absolute power could also change its…

— Edmund Fawcett

“Government is the perfect portrayer of the accuracy of the axiom that if you lie big enough, long enough, the lie becomes the “truth.”

— Neale Donald Walsch

“Absolute power is universally coveted, though all know that an absolute ruler has an anxious life and usually a violent death.”

— Isocrates

“Any government that presumes to direct how its people relate to ultimate truths either believes it is the only guide to those truths, or…

— Timothy Shah

Above all we should not forget that government is an evil, a usurpation upon the private judgement and individual conscience of mankind.

— William Godwin

“...The arbitrary power of the Government is unlimited, and unexampled in history; freedom of the Press, of opinion and of movement are as thoroughly…

— Arthur Koestler

In a democracy, power is not permanent.

— Lalu Prasad Yadav

Above all we should not forget, that government is an evil, an usurpation upon the private judgment and individual conscience of mankind.

— William Godwin

“power that isn’t really justified by the will of the governed should be dismantled.”

— Noam Chomsky

“In truth, a State whose society is not sovereign is no sovereign State at all. Such is the case when a society has no…

— Pope John Paul II