Political Power Quotes

Authoritarian governments are now trying to ensure that the increasingly free flow of ideas and information through cyberspace fuels their economies without threatening their political power.

Institutions of knowledge, of foresight and care, such as medicine, help to support the political power. It's also obvious, even to the point of scandal, in certain cases related to psychiatry.

It is an essential feature of the just state that the wealthy be kept away from political power and that the politically powerful be kept away from wealth.

I like power and I like to use it.

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

Conservatives believe in smaller government and in the power of the electorate. So I think that we're less likely to try to use a dramatic forum to warp people's political views.

The first thing I would do would be to move forward with an agenda to make sure that we give D.C. the opportunity to elect its own representatives and have some political power on Capitol Hill.

We who didn't inherit political power nor are made to acquire riches like nothing better than that which expands and solidifies the power of the spirit.

[The loss-of-strength gradient is] the degree to which military and political power diminishes as we move a unit distance away from its home base.

Political power without economic power is sterile.

If I bring up political power, personal power, it sounds like they're my terms, and they're not.

It would be catastrophic if one day these fundamentalists Christians gain enough political power to enforce their literal understanding of Mosaic Law.

In human history who hold the reigns of political power, and there are some women who were very much a team player during their husband's oppressive regime.

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

When you lose the gayborhoods, you lose the political power that comes when you're concentrated in precincts, and you also lose the cultural vitality.

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

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.

Separation of church and state cannot mean an absolute separation between moral principles and political power.

... woman's narrow and purist attitude toward life makes her a greater danger to liberty wherever she has political power. Man haslong overcome the superstitions that still engulf women.

We have but to remember man's natural tendency to satisfy his desires with the minimum of effort to realize how political power will be utilized.

Unequal access to money and media plus bias, external and internalized, and male-dominant religions and illegality at the polls - all those are reasons for women's wildly unequal political power.

The reputation of power IS power.

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

Money, media, and political power are very closely connected.

It is not the qualified voters, but the qualified voters who choose to vote, that constitute political power.

Creationists are possibly gaining more political power. In the U.S., you are constantly hearing stories of school boards harassing teachers and trying to get textbooks banned.

You can use a biography to examine political power, but only if you pick the right guy.

To limit money is to limit political power.

It can be difficult to speak truth to power. Circumstances, however, have made doing so increasingly necessary.

'The Means' is about power. I have access to political insiders who helped me write a portrait of the real day-to-day in politics, which turned out to be crazier than Wall Street.

Just as the poet is a menace to conformity, he is also a constant threat to political dictators. He is always on the verge of blowing up the assembly line of political power.

People turned against each other cannot turn against those responsible.

The more we're thrown into conflict with each other through engineered distrust, the less able we are to unite against those responsible.

There is an absolute power that truly empowers without corrupting