Dave Davies Quotes

What faith has not been used by demagogues as a club over somebody's head?

Every dictator uses religion as a prop to keep himself in power.

Power is always a corrupting influence.

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.

Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.

Corruption is just another form of tyranny.

It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.

I have always been fascinated by the corruption of power.

All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.

But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.

Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.

Religion is never the problem; it's the people who use it to gain power.

Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.

If you really think that ambition, power, lust, desire are not as applicable in the media as in politics or on Wall Street or anywhere else, you're deluding yourself.

To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.

Powerlessness also corrupts.

Experience constantly proves that every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.

Power corrupts; but absolute power is really neat.

The greatness of every mighty organization embodying an idea in this world lies in the religious fanaticism and intolerance with which, fanatically convinced of its own right, it intolerantly imposes its will against all others

The main threat to freedom comes from church ministers who depend upon fear and superstitions to gain and to keep power

Whenever there is money, power, and titles involved, players are going to be corrupt. That might be a political statement, but that's what it is for the athletes, too.

The problem with religious doctrine, as with politics, because of its ability to give people authority, it has a tendency to attract people that want authority for all the wrong reasons, and that is what it has done across all time.

Politics runs on power and money and on ignorance.

You can't trust anybody with power.

The appalling reality in American politics today is that, when ideology and money mix, truth is a mere inconvenience.