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“The Jews might have had Uganda, Madagascar, and other places for the establishment of a Jewish Fatherland, but they wanted absolutely nothing except Palestine, not because the Dead Sea water by evaporation can produce five trillion dollars of metaloids and powdered metals; not because the sub-soil of Palestine contains twenty times more petroleum than all the combined reserves of the two Americas; but because Palestine is the crossroads of Europe, Asia, and Africa, because Palestine constitutes the veritable center of world political power, the strategic center for world control.”

“Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.”

Source: The Politics of Education: Culture, Power, and Liberation

“The last stage but one of every civilisation, is characterised by the forced political unification of its constituent parts, into a single greater whole.”

Whole Lasts Political Politics Freedom Liberty Power Greater Stage Independence Oppression Civilisation Constituents Unification

Author:Arnold J. Toynbee

“In political administration, no problem is ever simple. It can never be reduced to the question whether a certain measure is good or not.”

Problem Political Certain Politics Simple Power Administration No Problem

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“If fifty thousand men were to die for the good of the State, I certainly would weep for them, but political necessity comes before everything else.”

Ifs Men States Political Dies Politics Power Thousand Fifty

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“Bloodletting is among the ingredients of political medicine.”

Political Politics Power Medicine Ingredients Bloodletting

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“The great art of governing consists in not letting men grow old in their jobs.”

Men Art Jobs Political Politics Grows Power Great Art Governing

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“Whether you think Jesus was God or not, you must admit he was a first-rate political economist.”

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Book:Androcles and the lion: an old fable renovated : definitive text

Source: Androcles and the lion: an old fable renovated : definitive text

“Money is not an invention of the state. It is not the product of a legislative act. Even the sanction of political authority is not necessary for its existence. Certain commodities came to be money quite naturally, as the result of economic relationships that were independent of the power of the state.”

States Government Political Certain Results Money Existence Power Economic Products Authority Economics Independent Invention Commodity Legislation Sanctions

Author:Carl Menger

“Those who have been intoxicated with power... can never willingly abandon it.”

Has Beens Political Politics Power Corruption Abandon Intoxicated Term Limits

Author:Edmund Burke

“Democracy can hardly be expected to flourish in societies where political and economic power is being progressively concentrated and centralized. But the progress of technology has led and is still leading to just such a concentration and centralization of power.”

Stills Political Technology Power Democracy Progress Economic Capitalism Expected Novelists Concentration Flourishing Economic Power Centralization

Book:Complete Essays: 1956-1963, and supplement, 1920-1948

Source: Complete Essays: 1956-1963, and supplement, 1920-1948

“Frankly speaking, we all know that provoking military and political instability, regional, and other conflicts is a helpful means of distracting the public from growing domestic social and economic problems in certain countries. Such attempts cannot be ruled out, unfortunately.”

“Nonviolent action involves opposing the opponent's power, including his police and military capacity, not with the weapons chosen by him but by quite different means. Repression by the opponent is used against his own power position in a kind of political "ju-jitsu" and the very sources of his power thus reduced or removed, with the result that his political and military position is seriously weakened or destroyed.”

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Author:Gene Sharp

“Only the power of unbounded love practiced in regard to all human beings can defeat the forces of interhuman strife, and can prevent the pending extermination of man by man on this planet. Without love, no armament, no war, no diplomatic machinations, no coercive police force, no school education, no economic or political measures, not even hydrogen bombs can prevent the pending catastrophe.”

Source: The Ways and Power of Love: Types, Factors, and Techniques of Moral Transformation

“You are talking to a leftist. I believe in the redistribution of wealth and power in the world. I believe in universal hospital care for everyone. I believe that we should not have a single homeless person in the richest country in the world. And I believe that we should not have a C.I.A. that goes around overwhelming governments and assassinating political leaders, working for tight oligarchies around the world to protect the tight oligarchy here at home.”