Power
Winston Churchill on Business
“I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.”
Lord Acton on Power
“Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”
John F. Kennedy on Power
“The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.”
Martin Luther King Jr. on Science
“Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.”
Thomas Jefferson on Politics
“The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it always to be kept alive.”
John Lehman on Power
“Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.”
Frank Dane on Politics
“Get all the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything.”
A. H. Weiler on Power
“Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn’t have to do it himself.”
Voltaire on Beliefs
“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.”
Ronald Reagan on Politics
“Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.”
Mark Twain Cynical Quote on Politics
“Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.”
Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet on Democracy
“Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.”
Robertson Davies on Society
“There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.”
Ronald Reagan on Government
“The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help.'”
Publius Tacitus on Laws
“The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.”
Anonymous on Power
“All power corrupts, but we need the electricity.”