Malcolm X Quotes

Comrade Stalin, having become Secretary-General, has unlimited authority concentrated in his hands, and I am not sure whether he will always be capable of using that authority with sufficient caution.

Now all politicians assume a necessity of control, the more efficient the control the better.

Power tends to corrupt. But the power in Washington resides in Congress, if it wants to use it. It can do anything - it can stop the Vietnam War, it can make its will felt, if it can ever get its act together to do anything.

If you lose, you can't lead. If you don't lead, you're irrelevant. Winning is what it's all about in politics.

There are no honorable rulers.

They who possess the prince possess the laws.

The government is run by men who have the rudder of State in their hands and cushions of state beneath their High and Mighty Behinds.

Once you've built the big machinery of political power, remember you won't always be the one to run it.

Following rulers instead of prophets, the wicked can rule you, but the knowledge can stop it.

There is nothing more dangerous than a government of the many controlled by the few.

Putin is no different than any other powerful man, like a Senator, or a President.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Political organizations are formed to keep the powerful in power.

When I came to Washington, I was troubled to observe so many similarities between the behaviors of drug-addicted patients and my political colleagues. In Washington power is like morphine.

A king ruleth as he ought, a tyrant as he lists, a king to the profit of all, a tyrant only to please a few.

Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.

Government remains the paramount area of folly because it is there that men seek power over others - only to lose it over themselves.

Putin wants to stay in power, but not so that he can finally solve our most pressing problems: education, health care, poverty.

Government! Three-fourths parasitic and the rest stupid fumbling - oh, Harshaw concluded that man, a social animal, could not avoid government, any more than an individual could escape bondage to his bowels. But simply because an evil was inescapable was no reason to term it "good." He wished that government would wander off and get lost! (96)

Power in the hands of the reformer is no less potentially corrupting than in the hands of the oppressor.

I make no apologies that the PAP is the Government and the Government is the PAP.

You know what kind of person it takes to run for President? Not normal. They could start out okay, but by the time they reach that level they've sold their soul to the devil so many times and stomped the guts out of enough people that they are definitely not like you and me, not even close.

Sarah Palin has managed to use her failed vice presidential run to put herself in a position of power and influence. Joe Biden won the race and he hasn't been able to put himself in a position of power and influence.

We are no longer citizens, we no longer have leaders. We're subjects, and we have rulers.

When power is for sale, then government power should be severely limited. When power is abused, then the less power the better.