Osama bin Laden Quotes

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

This nuclear option is ultimately an example of the arrogance of power.

Those in power need checks and restraints lest they come to identify the common good with their own tastes and desires, and their continuation in office as essential to the preservation of the nation.

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

The average European does not seem to feel free until he succeeds in enslaving and oppressing others.

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

Feelings of marginalization and cries of separation are symptomatic of countries where rulers find power sweet and intoxicating, where power is coveted, and when acquired, painstakingly guarded.

… egotists, exploiters and aristocrats

Republicanism stands for vested rights, for imperialism, for graft, for the annihilation of every semblance of liberty. Its ideal is the oily, creepy respectability of a McKinley, and the brutal arrogance of a [Theodore] Roosevelt.

It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their selfish purposes.

The carelessness and negligence of the governments of the world, which wholly intent upon the care of aggrandizing themselves, at the same time neglect the happiness of the people and with it their own peace and security.

when greed and fear are linked to power, you have a dangerous mix. We see that in political life. In part of the world, the mix of greed and fear means that those who get power become reluctant to give it back. One of the many things I like and admire in our democracies are the norms that make our leaders hand over power when voters tell them to

I want to place the facts before the people. Tell them about the greediness of Congress and how it divided the Telugu people and destroyed the state for political gains.

Be it terrorists or 'blinded by greed' capitalists or 'deaf and dumb and siloed' officials, special interests will always tyrannize the common good.

I don't understand when people are being greedy or mean, when they say who should get what, when they get control of someone else's life.

In the South, people in power feel they don't have to answer to no one.

Vice is Washington's signature. A fish rots from the head, and Washington has led our country into vice, greed, selfishness, and the mockery and destruction of human life.

But now well 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. They talk about cutting off the heads of the grosses têtes but now we know that there will be other grosses têtes and the will be all the same.

Money and corruption are ruining the land, crooked politicians betray the working man, pocketing the profits and treating us like sheep, and we're tired of hearing promises that we know they'll never keep.

You can't trust anybody with power.

If monarchy is corrupting - and it is - wait till you see what overt empire does to us.

So long as there is imperialism in the world, a permanent peace is impossible.

The truth is that neither British nor American imperialism was or is idealistic. It has always been driven by economic or strategic interests.

History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them.

There is none to tell the rich to go on striving, for a rich man makes the law that hallows and hollows his own life.