Power Government Quotes

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By ensuring that no one in government has too much power, the Constitution helps protect ordinary Americans every day against abuse of power by those in authority.

The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren

All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible.

No matter who you vote for, the government stays in power

The ruling power is always faced with the question, ‘In such and such circumstances, what would you do?’, whereas the opposition is not obliged to take responsibility or make any real decisions.

The more power government has to provide things, the more power it has to dictate terms.

The government has to be on the side of the people if the corporations take too much power.

What better way for a ruling class to claim and hold power than to pose as the defenders of the nation.

The threat to change Senate rules is a raw abuse of power and will destroy the very checks and balances our founding fathers put in place to prevent absolute power by any one branch of government.

The U.N. power comes from concerted action of the governments.

When you are subverting the power of government, that's a fundamentally dangerous thing to democracy.

[A] power equal to every possible contingency must exist somewhere in the government . . .

Many Communist government officials have a rigid, dictatorial power, but they live in constant suspicion and fear of anything that might undermine the power they have.

You can’t write novels without a touch of paranoia. I’m paranoid as an act of good citizenship, concerned about what the powerful people are up to.

Failing to indict a criminal sitting president sends the message that those in power are above the law.

There are hundreds of intelligent and big brains in every country in the world to run that country successfully but somehow and often either an immoral stupid or a charlatan imbecile comes to power!

As history has also shown, especially in the twentieth century, one of the first things an ideologue will do after achieving absolute power is kill.

The philosophy of a person speaks of what dictates or governs how and what someone believes.

Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity, especially when it comes to bureaucrats in a government who has no clueabout money matters

The experience taught him [Salvador Allende] too late that a system cannot be changed from the government but from the power.

System fails when people with ability don't have authority and people with authority don't have ability.

Access to unlimited funds by a government, not surprisingly, leads to an unlimited government.

Communities that can't read and translate what the powers are putting out will always be tricked.

Power without compassion is like a giant that blocks the sunlight.

A man might share his wealth, but never his authority.

... A state is a human community that (successfully) claims the monopolyof the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory.

The corporate government is heavily influenced by the utility company cartel.

The main obstacle to further progress on the resource curse is China, and to a lesser extent India.

Everybody says that I have a lot of power. But what does that power consist of?... Can I influence governments? I am beginning to be able to..." (1995)

Weak men cannot handle power. It will either crush them, or they will use it to crush others

I was reading in the paper today that Congress wants to replace the dollar bill with a coin. They’ve already done it. It’s called a nickel.

Money is not as good as power, but power is as good as money.

The council is a place where everyone schemes against everyone else, and people talk incessantly about Power with a capital "Pow".

When there is no personal responsibility in any society, there cannot be a responsible government.

Responsible government is an off shoot of a culture of personal responsibility.

The point of Political Correctness is not and has never been merely about any of the items that it imposes, but about the imposition itself. (The Rise of Political Correctness)

The one who love power becomes dictator and one who admires power becomes slave.