Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [521-540] of 1246 Power quotesPower QuotesPower Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual. ~ Frank Herbert One sword keeps another in the sheath.~ George Herbert No man has ever ruled other men for their own good.~ George D. Herron The possession of power over others is inherently destructive both to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.~ George D. Herron The liberty of the individual is the greatest thing of all, it is on this and this alone that the true will of the people can develop.~ Alexander Ivanovich Herzen I have said I do not dread industrial corporations as instruments of power to destroy this country, because there are a thousand agencies which can regulate, restrain and control them; but there is a corporation we may all dread. That corporation is the federal government. From the aggressions of this corporation, there can be no safety, if it is allowed to go beyond the well defined limits of its powers. I dread nothing so much as the exercise of ungranted and doubtful powers by the government. It is, in my opinion, the danger of dangers to the future of this country. Let us be sure to keep it always within its limits. If this great, ambitious, ever growing corporation becomes oppressive, who shall check it? If it becomes too wayward who shall control it? If it becomes unjust, who shall trust it? As sentinels of the country’s watchtower, Senators, I beseech you to watch and guard with sleepless dread, that corporation which can make all property and rights, all states and people, all liberty and hope its plaything in an hour, and its victims forever.~ Benjamin H. Hill A decision of the Fuhrer in the express form of a law or decree may not be scrutinized by a judge. In addition, the judge is bound by any other decision of the Fuhrer, provided that they are clearly intended to declare law.~ Adolf Hitler The government will make use of these powers only insofar as they are essential for carrying out vitally necessary measures.... The separate existence of the federal states will not be done away.... The number of cases in which an internal necessity exists for having recourse to such law is in itself a limited one.~ Adolf Hitler Without law and order our nation cannot survive.~ Adolf Hitler What luck for the rulers that men do not think.~ Adolf Hitler A free man is he that, in those things which by his strength and wit he is able to do, is not hindered to do what he has a will to.~ Thomas Hobbes When we strip teachers of their professional judgment, we forfeit the educational vitality we prize. When we quell controversy for the sake of congeniality, we deprive democracy of its mentors.~ Justice Gregory Hobbs Jr. The tendency of all strong governments has always been to suppress liberty, partly in order to ease the processes of rule, partly from sheer disbelief in innovation.~ John A. Hobson What has always made the state a hell on earth has been precisely that man has tried to make it his heaven.~ Friedrich Hoelderlin Freedom means freedom from forces and circumstances which would turn man into a thing, which would impose on man the passivity and predictability of matter. By this test, absolute power is the manifestation most inimical to human uniqueness. Absolute power wants to turn people into malleable clay.~ Eric Hoffer Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.~ Eric Hoffer Those who lack the capacity to achieve much in an atmosphere of freedom will clamor for power.~ Eric Hoffer It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.~ Eric Hoffer Absolute power corrupts even when exercised for humane purposes. The benevolent despot who sees himself as a shepherd of the people still demands from others the submissiveness of sheep. The taint inherent in absolute power is not its inhumanity but its anti-humanity.~ Eric Hoffer The intellectuals and the young, booted and spurred, feel themselves born to ride us.~ Eric Hoffer Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print