Political Power Quotes - Page 5

• Is Christianity just another special-interest group, clawing for political power? Or, even if Christians are acting as God's spokesmen, must Christians always conduct themselves politically as if Christianity were just another special-interest group? Do Christians conduct evangelism this way?.

  Gary North

  Christian, Political, Special

  Gary North (1989). “Political polytheism: the myth of pluralism”, Inst for Christian Economics

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• There is not a more dangerous experiment than to place property in the hands of one class, and political power in those of another... If property cannot retain the political power, the political power will draw after it the property.

  Daniel Webster

  Wisdom, Hands, Class

  Daniel Webster (1830). “Speeches and Forensic Arguments”, p.517

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• But veteran lawmakers torn apart by PTSD don't have a choice about being Exhibit A in the case against Washington politics. When you see what can happen to a page or a junior congressman, it passes on in a very real way, not in a history-class sense, that reality of what political power really is, .. Who are we to impose this emotional albatross on public servants? As a nation, we pretend to elect our leaders. It seems unjust to make them a special class to suffer for our sins over wrongheaded laws, or pay a continuing emotional price for securing their future careers.

  Leon Kass

  Real, Emotional, Class

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• MEN being, as has been said, by nature, all free, equal, and independent, no one can be put out of this estate, and subjected to the political power of another, without his own consent.

  John Locke

  Independent, Men, Political

  Second Treatise of Civil Government ch. 8, sec. 95 (1690)

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• Legitimacy is the elixir of political power.

  Fareed Zakaria

  Political, Legitimacy, Elixir

  Fareed Zakaria (2007). “The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad (Revised Edition)”, p.255, W. W. Norton & Company

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• At EMILY's List, we’re in the business of expanding the political power of women.

  Ellen Malcolm

  Political, Lists, Expanding

  "Let the Celebration Begin!" by Ellen Malcolm, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 19, 2009.

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• It would seem that if despotism were to be established among the democratic nations of our days, it might assume a different character; it would be more extensive and more mild; it would degrade men without tormenting them. I do not question that, in an age of instruction and equality like our own, sovereigns might more easily succeed in collecting all political power into their own hands and might interfere more habitually and decidedly with the circle of private interests than any sovereign of antiquity could ever do.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Character, Men, Hands

  Alexis de Tocqueville (2015). “Democracy in America - Vol. I. and II.”, p.760, Read Books Ltd

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• Political power means the capacity to regulate national life through national representatives.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mean, Power, Political

  Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.163, Vintage

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• America is a knowledge-based society, where information counts as much as material resources. Therefore those with the power to define what qualifies as knowledge - to determine what are the accepted facts - wield the greatest social and political power.

  Nancy Pearcey

  America, Political, Information

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• The Jews might have had Uganda, Madagascar, and other places for the establishment of a Jewish Fatherland, but they wanted absolutely nothing except Palestine, not because the Dead Sea water by evaporation can produce five trillion dollars of metaloids and powdered metals; not because the sub-soil of Palestine contains twenty times more petroleum than all the combined reserves of the two Americas; but because Palestine is the crossroads of Europe, Asia, and Africa, because Palestine constitutes the veritable center of world political power, the strategic center for world control.

  Nahum Goldmann

  Power, Uganda, Europe

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• If modernist naturalism were true, there would be no objective truth outside of science. In that case right and wrong would be a matter of cultural preference, or political power, and the power already available to modernists ideologies would be overwhelming.

  Phillip E. Johnson

  Political, Would Be, Objective Truth

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• The day that this country ceases to be free for irreligion it will cease to be free for religion - except for the sect that can win political power.

  Robert H. Jackson

  Country, Winning, Political

  Zorach v. Clauson (dissenting opinion) (1952)

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• To enable consensus politics to develop we need to empower people where they live. This means devolving financial resources and political power down to the community level. One of the greatest blocks to movement is fear. This fear can only be removed when people feel their voices are being heard by government and when they have a say in their own lives and communities.

  Mairead Corrigan

  Block, Mean, Government

  Mairead Corrigan Maguire (2010). “The Vision of Peace: Faith and Hope in Northern Ireland”, p.63, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• I think that white women are more apt to read laterally. So I think there's some strong identification for women, and their political and social positions, and minorities. I think that the political power of, let's say, the average Indian man and a white woman are pretty equal.

  Sherman Alexie

  Strong, Thinking, Men

  "Redeemers". The New Yorker Interview, www.newyorker.com. April 21, 2003.

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• If we will not endure a king as a political power, we should not endure a king over the production, transportation, and sale of any of the necessaries of life.

  John Sherman

  Kings, Economic Inequality, Political

  "Elizabeth Warren’s Consolidation Speech Could Change the Election" by Paul Glastris, washingtonmonthly.com. June 30, 2016.

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• I don't think it would be a good idea for scientists to have more political power. Scientists as a group are more inclined to try to derive an ought from an is, than the population at large.

  David Deutsch

  Thinking, Ideas, Political

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• The coal industry is an even larger part of the Australian economy than it is of the American, and it has an enormous amount of political power.

  Jeff Goodell

  Political, Coal, Economy

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• Nowhere has the political power of coal been more obvious than in presidential campaigns.

  Jeff Goodell

  Presidential, Political, Campaigns

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• The church, inserted and active in human society and in history, does not exist in order to exercise political power or to govern the society.

  Claudio Hummes

  Exercise, Order, Political

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• All of the government's monetary, economic and political power, as well as its extensive propaganda machinery, will be enlisted in a constant battle to drive down the price of gold - but in the absence of any fundamental change in the nation's monetary, fiscal, and economic direction, simply regard any major retreat in the price of gold as an unexpected buying opportunity.

  Irwin Schiff

  Opportunity, Government, Political

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• The fate of hundreds of thousands of species on this planet may be decided in the next decade. To slow the rush to extinction, we need to achieve real, substantive political power, and we need to get there fast.

  Eban Goodstein

  Real, Fate, Political

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• Anyone in England who puts himself forward to be elected to a position of political power is almost bound to be socially or emotionally insecure, or criminally motivated, or mad.

  Auberon Waugh

  Insecure, Mad, Political

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• The only sure way to stop excessive risk taking on Wall Street so you don't risk losing your job, or your savings or your home, is to put an end to the excessive economic and political power of Wall Street by busting up the big banks.

  Robert Reich

  Jobs, Wall, Home

  "Ten Ideas to Save the Economy #4: Bust Up Wall Street" by Robert Reich, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 18, 2015.

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• With the conception that the Revolution was only a means of securing political power, it was inevitable that all revolutionary values should be subordinated to the needs of the Socialist State; indeed, exploited to further the security of the newly acquired governmental power.

  Emma Goldman

  Mean, Political, Needs

  Emma Goldman (2003). “My Disillusionment in Russia”, p.259, Courier Corporation

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• When someone who wields political power does something you dislike or disagree with, it's incumbent upon you to object, criticize, and demand a different course. Those who refuse to do so are abdicating the most basic duty of citizenship and rendering themselves impotent.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Political, Demand, Doe

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