Power & Society Sayings

I don't think there's anything wrong with taking a lot of vitamin C.

The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.

Democracy will not come Today, this year, nor ever Through compromise and fear.

It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.

The Analytical Engine is the only thing that will ever be able to do justice to the great and complicated calculations of the universe.

We must conquer space or we will perish.

It often seems to me that the night is much more alive and richly coloured than the day.

To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.

Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.

Life insists on being my friend and my enemy.

Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery. People are working every minute. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

I can't sleep, and I haven't slept, for I am thinking of the poor fellows who are to die tomorrow.

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.

I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

I'm always making a comeback, but nobody ever tells me where I've been.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

The Queen is a woman, not a machine.

I'm not a natural politician.