The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.

The idea that women were oppressed throughout history is an appalling theory.

Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.

The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.

We shall probably get nearest to the truth if we think of the conscious and personal psyche as resting upon the broad basis of an inherited and universal psychic disposition which is as such unconscious, and that our personal psyche bears the same relation to the collective psyche as the individual to society.

The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.

Michael Jordan changed so much in basketball, he took his power to make a difference. It’s so much going on in music right now and somebody has to make a difference.

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society.

Men have become the tools of their tools.

There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly.

Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery.

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.

Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the first to justify the beginnings of dictatorship by somebody else.

Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.

If you were to ask me to choose between democratic values and wealth, power, prosperity and fame, I will very easily and without any doubt choose democratic values.

I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

It is pretty ironic that the so-called ‚least advanced‘ people are the ones taking the lead in trying to protect all of us, while the richest and most powerful among us are the ones who are trying to drive the society to destruction.

The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.

Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.

Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.

Society has always to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.

The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.

When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.

We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.

Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.

One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.

The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.

The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.

Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.

People’s blessings give you the power to work tirelessly. The only thing required is commitment.

We have an epidemic of insecure people in our society today.

The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.

The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.

We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.

No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man’s permission when we ask him to obey it.

Actually, to be an effective person politically in this country, I think you have to be thirty or over, and also you have to be rich, well-placed, you have to be close to power. And I don’t think that young people, because they look young, can do much, as I think they are counterproductive.

The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.

This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.

The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society. A massive, powerful society.

Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.

Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.

I believed in God when cancer come to me. Now when I speak, I speak with authority because I’ve been there.

The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it.

For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant – Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world – including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents.

Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.

Power is a complicated word and can take many forms.

If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.

The society in ‚The Handmaid’s Tale‘ is a throwback to the early Puritans whom I studied extensively at Harvard under Perry Miller, to whom the book is dedicated.

Money is kind of a base subject. Like water, food, air and housing, it affects everything yet for some reason the world of academics thinks it’s a subject below their social standing.

What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking.

The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism.

Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.

In the literal sense, there has been no relevant evolution since the trek from Africa. But there has been substantial progress towards higher standards of rights, justice and freedom – along with all too many illustrations of how remote is the goal of a decent society.

Palestinians have no wealth or power.

I think our democracy has it exactly right: two terms, eight years. It’s enough. Because it’s important to have one foot in reality when you have access to this kind of power.

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.

In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.

Affluence means influence.