Family Quote by Thomas Jefferson

The government itself, which is only the mode which the people have chosen to execute their will, is equally liable to be abused and…

— Henry David Thoreau

The influence over government must be shared among all the people. If every individual which composes their mass participates of the ultimate authority, the…

— Thomas Jefferson

Those who keep the masses of men in subjection by exercising force and cruelty deprive them at once of two vital foods, liberty and…

— Simone Weil

As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as they…

— Noam Chomsky

Yes, authority, coercion, and dependence rest on the mass, but never freedom or the free unfoldment of the individual, never the birth of a…

— Emma Goldman

Where no individual in a community is denied his rights, the mass are the more perfectly protected in theirs; for whenever any class is…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

It will follow that that government ought to be clothed with all powers requisite to complete execution of its trust.

— Alexander Hamilton

When a government becomes powerful it is destructive, extravagant and violent; it is an usurer which takes bread from innocent mouths and deprives honorable…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The common people feel themselves oppressed by the grasping of some, and their vanity is flattered by others. Fired with evil passions, they are…

— Polybius

Any political or philosophical agenda can and will be perverted by power and/or fear.

— Bryan Konietzko

“Individuals are prey to institutions in modern mass societies... Individuals can struggle mightily against institutionalized conditions, but without changing the institutions themselves, those efforts…

— Brian Awehali

The society will be dominated by an elite of persons free from traditional values who will have no doubt in fulfilling their objectives by…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski