William A. Dembski Quotes

In a county where power is in the hands of the local tyrants and evil gentry, the magistrate, whoever he may be, is almost invariably a corrupt official. In a county where the peasants have risen there is clean government, whoever the magistrate.

Politicians as a class are dangerous, that people who are seeking power over us are not, by definition, our friends.

But after the spirit of conquest had changed the first governments, all the succeeding ones have, in general, proved one continued series of injustice, which has reigned in all countries for almost four thousand years.

The bad man desires arbitrary power. What moves the evil man is the love of injustice.

One Law for the Lion and the Ox is oppression.

Power over men is itself a satisfaction, besides providing opportunity to better one's circumstances with a minimum of exertion. Hence, the lust for power increases with its enjoyment and restraint is added to restraint. The government instituted to prevent men from transgressing one another's equal rights thus tends to become a transgressor of the rights of all. The injustice is far more oppressive than anyone man can do unto another, and the interests of freedom can be served only by restraint of government.

The people are good; the government is not good.

A heavy aristocracy and corruption are two bridles in the mouths of a people which will prevent them from making any effectual efforts against their masters.

Abusers of power make enemies who eventually get even.

Those who have by an unrighteous power made merchandise of the earth, giving all to some, & none to others, declare themselves tyranicall & usurping.

Those who exercise power always arrange matters so as to give their tyranny the appearance of justice.

No state has been so plagued by its rulers as when power has fallen into the hands of some dabbler in philosophy or literary addict.

Democracy has shown us that what is evil are the grosses têtes, the big heads, all big heads are greedy for money and power, they are ambitious that is the reason they are big heads and so they are at the head of the government and the result is misery for the people

As men could not make might obey right, they have made right obey might.

My nature is that when I see abuses of power, I want to expose those abuses.

And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet.

The big tyrants never face justice.

Wrong people are wrong because they use their freedom to deny it to others.

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

The wrong people will do everything in their power to guarantee that the wrong political climate will continue. It seems, then, that the wrong people ensure the wrong political climate and the wrong political climate ensures the wrong people. How then to break free of this vicious circle?

Power is always a corrupting influence.

Unfortunately our nation, nay, our world, is run by evil morons.

Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

The possession of arbitrary power has always, the world over, tended irresistibly to destroy humane sensibility, magnanimity, and truth.

If you're running a dictatorship, you don't really have to worry about the welfare or the property rights of the ordinary citizen. Only the people who keep you in power, a very small group, matter.