Power & Society Sayings
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Our business here is not to know all things, but those which concern our conduct.
The best is the enemy of the good.
Happiness is a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.
Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
The truth is, all politicians have an interest in the perpetuity of the forms of government, and none in the perpetuity of their substance.
The development of the world is the development of the idea of freedom.
The power of a man, (to take it universally,) is his present means, to obtain some future apparent good.
The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.
The Services in war time are fit only for desperadoes but, in peace, are fit only for fools.
The greater the emotion, the more strongly are we affected by it.
It is a strange desire, to seek power and to lose liberty.
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
Life in the NBA breaks down like this: 50% sex, 50% money.
Surely a rogue and a gangster fond of playing with fire, rather than a politician.
Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is lent us in life: the higher the interest, the more we have to pay.
Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
The greatest scandal of the world is the one we are all guilty of: the fact that we are born.
Where there is power, there is resistance.
The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and terrorists, the more you control all the people.
The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.