Sun Yat-sen Quotes

What we really need to be understanding is that all of these things matter and they all stem from the fact that certain people live with power and authority and they want to maintain it.

The people who exercise the power are not always the same people over whom it is exercised.

Was there ever any domination which did not appear natural to those who possessed it?

The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.

It doesn't matter how much wisdom you have. If you don't have position, you have nothing. That's the tragedy of India.

Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.

However sugarcoated and ambiguous, every form of authoritarianism must start with a belief in some group's greater right to power, whether that right is justified by sex, race, class, religion or all four.

Liberty is so much latitude as the powerful choose to accord to the weak.

The ruling class is smarter than you, and they're more creative. And if you forget that lesson, you go down the drain. Because if they weren't, they wouldn't be around as long as they have been and as strong as they have been.

Television has made dictatorship impossible but democracy unbearable.

The most powerful men were those who most effectively used the power of adult competence to enforce childish agreements.

Who controls the present controls the past. There's a power structure, if you like, between the present and the past and the future, and that's what I'm interested in.

The very existence of government at all, infers inequality. The citizen who is preferred to office becomes the superior to those who are not, so long as he is the repository of power, and the child inherits the wealth of the parent as a controlling law of society.

The problem is that the U.K. in essence is a feudal society. It's everyone in their place.

The function of the law is not to provide justice or to preserve freedom. The function of the law is to keep those who hold power, in power.

Powerful people cannot afford to educate the people that they oppress, because once you are truly educated, you will not ask for power. You will take it.

There's no Peter York Foundation, and you're no one without one.

The scum of the People are most Tyrannical when they get the Power, and treat their Betters with the greatest Insolence.

The real problem is that the way that power is given out in our society pits us against each other.

Democratic institutions are based on a reality of human nature: that those with power, however benign or even noble their intentions, will do what they can to keep it.

Similarly, the Marquis is presented in this film as someone who would disturb the status quo and therefore must be kept imprisoned.

I hate uneducated people having power …

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.

Law is merely the expression of the will of the strongest for the time being.

There is no society, however free and democratic, where wealth will not create an aristocracy.