Quotes of: Political-power Keyword

The sanctification of political power by Christianity is blasphemy; it is the negation of Christianity.

Leo Tolstoy: Spiritual Writings

The question of whether one has one's own political power or goes to work for someone else is not only a feminist question.

Gloria Steinem

Wealth aggregates and becomes political power. Simple as that. ‘Corporation’ is just the most recent name for it.

Freedomâ„¢

There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one of these is the history of political power. This is elevated into the history of the world.

Karl Popper

Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?

Khalil Gibran

It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.

Robert A. Heinlein

Among other things Jonestown was an example of a definition well known to sociologists of religion: a cult is a religion with no political power.

Thomas Wolfe

Politics is an art and not a science, and what is required for its mastery is not the rationality of the engineer but the wisdom and the moral strength of the statesman

Scientific Man Vs. Power Politics

When Gansey was polite, it made him powerful. When Adam was polite, he was giving power away.

The Raven Boys

Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.

Robert A. Heinlein

When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power.

Maggie Gallagher

Loyalty of the law-making power to the executive power was one of the dangers the political fathers foretold.

Garet Garrett

Since the governments are in the pockets of businesses, who's going to control this most powerful institution? Business is more powerful than politics, and it's more powerful than religion. So it's going to have to be the vigilante consumer.

Anita Roddick

While the popular understanding of anarchism is of a violent, anti-State movement, anarchism is a much more subtle and nuanced tradition then a simple opposition to government power. Anarchists oppose the idea that power and domination are necessary ...

The Politics of Individualism: Liberalism, Liberal Feminism and Anarchism

I think that people like Bloomberg, they're complete thugs. No question about it. But on the other hand, it must be said that they are politically savvy. They don't get into those positions of power - in the case of Bloomberg, both economic and polit...

Norman Finkelstein

The tax issue is the most powerful issue in American politics going back to the Tea Party.

Grover Norquist

Dickens never joined a political party nor put forward a political programme. He was a writer who rightly saw his power as coming through his fiction.

Claire Tomalin

if people do not have responsibility, do not expect them to behave responsibly.

The Leaderless Revolution: How Ordinary People Will Take Power and Change Politics in the 21st Century

A preoccupation with power - black power, student power, flower power, poor power, 'the power structure' - is the striking aspect of the American political scene at the moment. Oddly enough, obsession with power goes hand in hand with a fear of power...

Carey McWilliams

Their final objective toward which all their deceit is directed is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection.

Henry A. Wallace

Inertia is a powerful force in human and political affairs.

Maurice Strong