Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [361-380] of 1246 Power quotesPower QuotesPower Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes In dealing with the State, we ought to remember that its institutions are not aboriginal, though they existed before we were born; that they are not superior to the citizen; that every one of them was once the act of a single man; every law and usage was a man's expedient to meet a particular case; that they all are imitable, all alterable; we may make as good; we may make better.~ Ralph Waldo Emerson The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going.~ Ralph Waldo Emerson When you strike at a king, you must kill him.~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Wherever a man comes, there comes revolution. The old is for slaves.~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.~ Epictetus While it would be silly and ungracious to insist that intelligent deliberation on public issues is nowhere found in modern communities, it would be naive to imagine that wise deliberation can survive the constant pounding from self-interested political behavior. Benevolence in public institutions has a short half-life no matter how noble its original intentions." and "Once [a] program is in place, its day-to-day administration falls into the hands of a professional cadre besieged by powerful interest groups whose influence grows as public interest wanes. . . . A slow process of disintegration and reconfiguration sets in, transforming and expanding a program from within.~ Richard A. Epstein In the country of the blind the one-eyed man is king.~ Desiderius Erasmus Propaganda is persuading people to make up their minds while withholding some of the facts from them.~ Harold Evans The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste.~ Joseph Farrell Putting free speech behind bars simply because it concerns prisoners sets a dangerous precedent. The court's decision makes clear that Arizona may not jail the Internet.~ David Fathi Governments have ever been known to hold a high hand over the education of the people. They know, better than anyone else, that their power is based almost entirely on the school. Hence, they monopolize it more and more.~ Francisco Ferrer For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.~ Richard Feynman Either you think – or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.~ F. Scott Fitzgerald The mission of the Gestapo expanded steadily as, from 1933 onward, “political criminality” was given a much broader definition than ever before and most forms of dissent and criticism were gradually criminalized. The result was that more “laws” or lawlike measures were put on the books than ever.~ Shelia Fitzpatrick How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.~ Anne Frank To vest a few fallible men -- prosecutors, judges, jurors -- with vast powers of literary or artistic censorship, to convert them into what J.S. Mill called the "moral police" is to make them despotic arbiters of literary products... If one day they ban mediocre books as obscene, another day they may do otherwise to a work of a genius. Originality, not too plentiful, should be cherished, not stifled. An author's imagination may be cramped if he must write with an eye on prosecutors or juries…~ Jerome D. Frank To vest a few fallible men – prosecutors, judges, jurors – with vast powers of literary or artistic censorship, to convert them into what J. S. Mill has called the “Moral Police,” it is to make them despotic arbiters of literary products.~ Jerome D. Frank Choice has always been a privilege of those who could afford to pay for it.~ Ellen Frankfort But what madness must it be to run in debt for these superfluities! We are offered, by the terms of this vendue, six months' credit; and that perhaps has induced some of us to attend it, because we cannot spare the ready money, and hope now to be fine without it. But, ah, think what you do when you run in debt; you give to another power over your liberty. If you cannot pay at the time, you will be ashamed to see your creditor; you will be in fear when you speak to him, you will make poor pitiful sneaking excuses, and by degrees come to lose you veracity, and sink into base downright lying; for, as Poor Richard says, the second vice is lying, the first is running in debt. And again to the same purpose, lying rides upon debt's back.~ Benjamin Franklin Little strokes fell great oaks.~ Benjamin Franklin Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print