Unjustified Power Quotes

Asking for a royally appointed prime minister is undemocratic. It is, pardon me, a mess. It is irrational.

In the modern corporation the decisive power, that of the managers , is derived from no one but the managers themselves controlled by nobody and nothing and responsible to no one. It is in the most literal sense unfounded, unjustified, uncontrolled and irresponsible power.

A man may be a tough, concentrated, successful money-maker and never contribute to his country anything more than a horrible example.

Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root.

In the mass of mankind, I fear, there is too great a majority of fools and knaves; who, singly from their number, must to a certain degree be respected, though they are by no means respectable.

There are men who strike at liberty under the term licentiousness.

Even though you were radiated doesn't mean you get to have that sort of power.

The oppression of thought and faith, the deprivation of true freedom both in faith and life - all things upon which the pope has placed his heavy hand; from hence come the false dogmas

Why is this man in the White House? The majority of Americans did not vote for him. Why is he there? And I tell you this morning that he's in the White House because God put him there for a time such as this.

When we talk about the assertion of basically new government privileges with weak or no justification, we don't even have to look at international law to see the failings in them.

My pride had been starched by a family who assumed unlimited authority in its own affairs.

The misgovernment of the American people is misgovernment by the American people.

When you have a white male making the arguments, they carry more weight... Should they carry more weight? Absolutely not. But do they? Yes.

The most dangerous diminutions of freedom come from those who are convinced of their moral rectitude.

fMorse of course scorns Bush’s motives. Who doesn’t? He exemplifies all the obvious sins so blatantly that these days it’s hard to find anyone who doesn’t despise him. He’s become too easy a target.