Political Power Quotes - Page 6

• Global interconnectedness has led to the emergence of a new political power, that of consumers and their associations. It is good for people to realize that purchasing is always a moral - and not simply economic - act.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  People, Political, Association

  Pope Benedict XVI (2009). “Charity in Truth”, p.134, Ignatius Press

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• If you ask the government to impose morality, then moral questions will be decided by whoever has the most political power.

  Harry Browne

  Government, Political, Morality

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• It's not possible for two countries to be the leading dominant political power at the same time.

  Fareed Zakaria

  Country, Two, Political

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• Men naturally rebel against the injustice of which they are victims. Thus, when plunder is organized by law for the profit of those who make the law, all the plundered classes try somehow to enter, by peaceful or revolutionary means, into the making of laws. According to their degree of enlightenment, these plundered classes may propose one of two entirely different purposes when they attempt to attain political power: Either they may wish to stop lawful plunder, or they may wish to share in it.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Mean, Men, Law

  Frederic Bastiat (2006). “The Law”, p.9, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• More directly linked to the impact of technology, it involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled and directed society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite whose claim to political power would rest on allegedly superior scientific know-how. Unhindered by the restraints of traditional liberal values, this elite would not hesitate to achieve its political ends by using the latest modern techniques for influencing public behavior and keeping society under close surveillance and control.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Technology, Impact, Political

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• The Greens have not been providing you with the full information about where their money comes from or what it's about. I think the Greens in this upcoming state election should resign if they're being funded by an offshore political power. It's tantamount to treason and something needs to be done about it.

  Clive Palmer

  Lying, Thinking, Australia

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• The anti-gun-violence movement was essentially asleep from 1994 to 2012, and during that time, the gun lobby built up enormous political power.

  Chris Murphy

  Gun, Political, Movement

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• When people access the use of force for the threat of violence they have, by definition, a new political power. An unwanted political power.

  Cody Wilson

  People, Political, Violence

  Source: motherboard.vice.com

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• The great enemy of freedom is the alignment of political power with wealth. This alignment destroys the commonwealth - that is, the natural wealth of localities and the local economies of household, neighborhood, and community - and so destroys democracy, of which the commonwealth is the foundation and practical means.

  Wendell Berry

  Mean, Community, Political

  Wendell Berry (2003). “The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry”, p.58, Counterpoint

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• The American Fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact.... They cultivate hate and distrust of both Britain and Russia. They claim to be super-patriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution. They demand free enterprise, but are the spokesmen for monopoly and vested interest. 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

  Hate, Men, Russia

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• As for the Pope, I am too old to be frightened by his shadow, and am quite sure his shadow or Substance will do less harm to the liberties of my country than will a party, who seek to acquire political power by exciting religious bigotry in the minds of their duped followers.

  Ezra Cornell

  Country, Religious, Party

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• Religious power, which, as I have already said, frequently identifies itself with political power, has always been a protagonist of this bitter struggle, even when it seemingly was neutral.

  Salvatore Quasimodo

  Religious, Struggle, Political

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• Are we going to continue to yield personal liberties and community autonomy to the steady inexplicable centralization all political power or restore the Republic to Constitutional direction, regain our personal liberties and reassume the individual state's primary responsibility and authority in the conduct of local affairs? Are we going to permit a continuing decline in public and private morality or re-establish high ethical standards as the means of regaining a diminishing faith in the integrity of our public and private institutions?

  Douglas MacArthur

  Integrity, Mean, Responsibility

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• All political power is a trust.

  Charles James Fox

  Power, Political

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 610-13, 1922.

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• The power of the press in America is a primordial one. It sets the agenda of public discussion; and this sweeping political power is unrestrained by any law. It deter- mines what people will talk and think about-an authority that in other nations is reserved for tyrants, priests, parties and mandarins.

  Theodore White

  Party, Thinking, Tyrants

  Theodore Harold White (1973). “The making of the President, 1972”, Scribner

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• For a very long time, and among a large number of peoples, political power has belonged to the owners of the land.

  Vilfredo Pareto

  Land, Numbers, Long

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• Wall Street has too much wealth and political power.

  Charlie Munger

  Wall, Political, Too Much

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• The whole community of people with disabilities was alive, politically alive. I give Justin Dart credit for that. He traveled to every state in the country. He really made people with disabilities understand that they had some political power.

  Major Owens

  Country, People, Giving

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• The real danger of democracy is, that the classes which have the power under it will assume all the rights and reject all the duties-that is, that they will use the political power to plunder those-who-have.

  William Graham Sumner

  Real, Class, Rights

  William Graham Sumner (1903). “What Social Classes Owe to Each Other”, p.32, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• Viewed as a means to the end of political freedom, economic arrangements are important because of their effect on the concentration or dispersion of power. The kind of economic organization that provides economic freedom directly, namely, competitive capitalism, also promotes political freedom because it separates economic power from political power and in this way enables the one to offset the other

  Milton Friedman

  Mean, Organization, Political

  Milton Friedman (2009). “Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition”, p.9, University of Chicago Press

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• While the Christian faith clearly teaches that believers are to be involved as good citizens in the state, nevertheless, it is obvious why so many secularists are addicted to politics because political power is a surrogate for a Higher Power.

  J.P. Moreland

  Christian, Political, Citizens

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• I try to do stories that make a difference -- stories that affect the way people think, stories that people need to hear -- and usually what drives me is to do stories about people who have no voice, people who have no political power, people who are overlooked by society.

  Ann Curry

  Thinking, Voice, Differences

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• It may come as a surprise to some academics, but there is a marked relationship between economic power and political power.

  Michael Pare

  Political, May, Surprise

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• In 1986, Tanton published an article in which he argued: `To govern is to populate ... Will the present majority peaceably hand over its political power to a group that is simply more fertile? ... As Whites see their power and control over their lives declining, will they simply go quietly into the night? Or will there be an explosion?'

  John Tanton

  Night, Hands, Political

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• I have come to see more and more that one of the most decisive steps that the Negro can take is that little walk to the voting booth. That is an important step. We've got to gain the ballot, and through that gain, political power.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Political, Voting, Important

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