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“All of the government's monetary, economic and political power, as well as its extensive propaganda machinery, will be enlisted in a constant battle to drive down the price of gold - but in the absence of any fundamental change in the nation's monetary, fiscal, and economic direction, simply regard any major retreat in the price of gold as an unexpected buying opportunity.”

“When it came to political power, blacks need not apply. Add to this steaming stew the growing tensions over the Vietnam War and the movement for civil rights, and you had plenty of elements to fire the imagination of a novice journalist.”

Source: Talking Back: . . . to Presidents, Dictators, and Assorted Scoundrels

“Anyone in England who puts himself forward to be elected to a position of political power is almost bound to be socially or emotionally insecure, or criminally motivated, or mad.”

Political Position England Mad Bounds Motivated Insecure Political Power

Author:Auberon Waugh

“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.”

People Giving Made Country States Whole Political Community Alive Credit Disability Traveled Political Power Justin People With Disabilities

Author:Major Owens

“Wall Street has too much wealth and political power.”

Political Wealth Too Much Streets Wall Political Power

Author:Charlie Munger

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

Long Political Numbers Land Long Time Owners Large Numbers Political Power

Author:Vilfredo Pareto

“By their subjugation of the press, the political powers in America have conferred on themselves the greatest of political blessings -- Gyges' ring of invisibility. And they have left the American people more deeply baffled by their own country's politics than any people on earth. Our public realm lies steeped in twilight, and we call that twilight news.'”

People Country Earth America Political Lying Left Blessing News Presses Rings Realms Twilight Political Power Invisibility Baffled Subjugation

Book:Buried alive: essays on our endangered republic

Source: Buried alive: essays on our endangered republic

“I never imagined when I wrote my first book on Strauss that the unscrupulous elite that he elevates would ever come so close to political power, nor that the ominous tyranny of the wise would ever come so close to being realised in the political life of a great nation like the United States. But fear is the greatest ally of tyranny.”

Firsts Book States Political Nations United United States Wise Tyranny Allies Being Real Elites Realised Political Power Great Nations Political Life Ominous

Author:Shadia Drury

“Museums have no political power, but they do have the possibility of influencing the political process. This is a complete change from their role in the early days of collecting and hoarding the world to one of using the collections as an archive for a changing world. This role is not merely scientifically important, but it is also a cultural necessity.”

World Important Political Process Roles Influence Possibility Collections Museums Collecting Political Power Archives Hoarding

Author:Richard Fortey

“Catholicism is more than a religion, it is a political power. Therefore I'm led to believe there will be no peace in Ireland until the Catholic Church is crushed”

Believe Political Church Catholic Catholicism Ireland Crushed Catholic Church Political Power

Author:Oliver Cromwell

“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.”

Real Use Political Class Democracy Rights Danger Duty Assuming Rejects Political Power Plunder

Book:What Social Classes Owe to Each Other

Source: What Social Classes Owe to Each Other

“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.”

Mind Country Political Religious Party Liberty Economy Shadow Exciting Harm Substance Acquire Racist Bigotry Frightened Followers Pope Political Power Religious Bigotry

Author:Ezra Cornell

“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.”

Mean Political Community Natural Wealth Enemy Economy Democracy Foundation Practicals Locals Neighborhood Household Alignment Political Power Commonwealth Locality

Book:The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry

Source: The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry

“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.”

Said Political Religious Struggle Bitter Political Power Protagonists

Author:Salvatore Quasimodo

“Wealth aggregates and becomes political power. Simple as that. ‘Corporation’ is just the most recent name for it.”

Political Names Wealth Simple Corporations Political Power

Book:Freedom (TM)

Source: Freedom (TM)

“Though, with the ascendancy of Louis, the political power of the nobles finally came to an end, France remained, in the whole complexion of her social life, completely aristocratic.”

Ends Whole Political Social Advertising France Social Life Political Power Advertising Agencies Complexion Aristocratic Ascendancy

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Lytton Strachey (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lytton Strachey (Illustrated)

“All political power is a trust.”

Political Power Political Power

Author:Charles James Fox

“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.”

People Thinking America Law Political Nations Party Mines Authority Presses Discussion Agendas Priests Tyrants Reserved Political Power Sweeping

Book:The making of the President, 1972

Source: The making of the President, 1972

“The challenge remains. On the other side are formidable forces: money, political power, the major media. On our side are the people of the world and a power greater than money or weapons: the truth.”

People World Political Force Sides Challenges Greater Media Majors Weapons Remains Political Power Formidable

Book:A Power Governments Cannot Suppress

Source: A Power Governments Cannot Suppress

“If we will not endure a king as a political power, we should not endure a king over the production, transportation, and sale of any of the necessaries of life.”

Ifs Should Political Economic Kings Endure Productions Inequality Transportation Political Power Economic Inequality

Author:John Sherman

“Islam has some of the best defenses against other god viruses and has the potential to be more parasitically aggressive when consolidating political power with a society.”

Political Religion Islam Defense Aggressive Viruses Political Power

Author:Darrel Ray

“Democracy, taken in its narrower, purely political, sense, suffers from the fact that those in economic and political power possess the means for molding public opinion to serve their own class interests. The democratic form of government in itself does not automatically solve problems; it offers, however, a useful framework for their solution. Everything depends ultimately on the political and moral qualities of the citizenry.”

Source: Einstein on Peace

“The people of this country, not special interest big money, should be the source of all political power.”

People Should Country Bigs Political Interest Money Special Source Political Power Special Interests

Author:Paul Wellstone

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

Ifs Enough Would Be Christian Law Political Understanding One Day Gains Notable Literal Political Power Mosaics

Author:Mel White

“If welfare and equality are to be primary aims of law, some people must necessarily possess a greater power of coercion in order to force redistribution of material goods. Political power alone should be equal among human beings; yet striving for other kinds of equality absolutely requires political inequality.”

Source: Private Rights and Public Illusions

“Revolutions and revolutionary wars are inevitable in class society, and without them it is impossible to accomplish any leap in social development and to overthrow the reactionary ruling classes and therefore impossible for the people to win political power.”

“All political power is primarily an illusion. Illusion. Mirrors and blue smoke, beautiful blue smoke rolling over the surface of highly polished mirrors, first a thin veil of blue smoke, then a thick cloud that suddenly dissolves into wisps of blue smoke, the mirrors catching it all, bouncing it back and forth.”

Firsts Beautiful Political Illusion Mirrors Blue Clouds Surface Smoke Thick Rolling Veils Catching Back And Forth Polished Political Power Wisps Smoke And Mirrors Rolling Over

Author:Jimmy Breslin

“Increasingly independent black economic, cultural and political power gave Blacks more freedom to do what came natural to them. Divorced from White influence and culture, they reverted quickly to their genotype - increasingly typical of black societies around the world. Males exhibited exaggerated sexual aggression and promiscuity that led to the dissolution of the Black nuclear family in America. Females reverted to the age-old African model of maternal provisioning of children.”

“I can very well say without hesitation that all those who have political power, even if they use it well have acquired it by demonic mediation and even if they are not conscious of it, they are worshippers of diabolos.”

Ifs Wells I Can Use Political Politics Conscious Hesitation Political Power Mediation Demonic Worshippers

Author:Jacques Ellul

“Chairman Mao once said that political power comes from the barrel of a gun. He was only partly right: power that comes from the barrel of a gun can be effective only for a short time. In the end, peoples love for truth, justice, freedom, and democracy will triumph. No matter what governments do, the human spirit will always prevail.”

Humans Said Ends Matter Government Political Spirit Justice Power Democracy Gun No Matter What Triumph Human Spirit Chairman Barrels Political Power Short Time Mao Chairman Mao

Author:Dalai Lama

“Generally speaking, the less privileged groups in democratic society, as they become aware of their interests and their political power, will be found to press for ever more state intervention in practically all fields.”

States Political Found Interest Groups Fields Advantage Presses Democratic Privileged Intervention Political Power Democratic Society

Author:Gunnar Myrdal

“Civics is not only how to run the country before it's your turn to run the country; it is, in fact, the study of power, practical political power. And you must start that process at an age level when kids' brains are still open and malleable.”

Stills Country Facts Running Kids Age Political Turns Process Levels Brain Study Practicals Civics Political Power

Author:Richard Dreyfuss

“An honest politician has no goodies to toss around. This limits his effectiveness profoundly, because political power in India is dispersed throughout a multi-tiered federal structure; a local official who has not been paid off can sometimes stop a billion-dollar project.”

Sometimes Political Honest Politician Limits Projects India Paid Structure Dollars Billions Locals Officials Effectiveness Political Power Toss Paid Off

Author:Aravind Adiga

“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.”

Thinking Trying Ideas Would Be Political Groups Ought Scientist Population Good Ideas Political Power

Author:David Deutsch

“The coal industry is an even larger part of the Australian economy than it is of the American, and it has an enormous amount of political power.”

Political Economy Industry Amount Enormous Coal Australian Political Power

Author:Jeff Goodell

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

Political Obvious Campaigns Presidential Coal Political Power Presidential Campaign

Author:Jeff Goodell

“The church, inserted and active in human society and in history, does not exist in order to exercise political power or to govern the society.”

Humans Doe Political Order Church Exercise Active Human Society Political Power

Author:Claudio Hummes

“If modernist naturalism were true, there would be no objective truth outside of science. In that case right and wrong would be a matter of cultural preference, or political power, and the power already available to modernists ideologies would be overwhelming.”

Ifs Matter Would Be Political Cases Available Objectives Ideology Overwhelming Preference Political Power Naturalism Objective Truth

Author:Phillip E. Johnson

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