Quotes About Excessive Power

#1. Society gained more by not placing excessive power in the hands of mediocre politicians than it lost by limiting the power of great heroes and statesmen who might or might not appear once every few centuries.

Yoshiki Tanaka

#2. [I]t is true that [the provisions of the Bill of Rights] were designed to meet ancient evils. But they are the same kind of human evils that have emerged from century to century whenever excessive power is sought by the few at the expense of the many.

Hugo Black

#3. In a normal democracy, you protect the individual from the excessive power of the state. In Turkey, power elites try to protect the state - as if this state were fragile and needed protection - when in fact, it's too powerful already.

Elif Safak

#4. It is a hard but good law of fate, that as every evil, so every excessive power, wears itself out.

Johann Gottfried Herder

#5. The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.

Francis Bacon

#6. Everything you need to know about a customer has been written by them or about them. And it lives on the Internet. All you have to do is uncover it. And use it.

Jeffrey Gitomer

#7. The only sure way to stop excessive risk taking on Wall Street so you don't risk losing your job, or your savings or your home, is to put an end to the excessive economic and political power of Wall Street by busting up the big banks.

Robert Reich

#8. Manners matter, asserts the professor. What provokes rebellion, he asserts, is not as often a theory out allowing for arbitrary power but be excessive, brusque use of it by a particular individual.

Robert J. Allison

#9. And yet is not mankind itself, pushing on its blind way, driven by a dream of its greatness and its power upon the dark paths of excessive cruelty and of excessive devotion. And what is the pursuit of truth, after all?

Joseph Conrad

#10. Titles are tinsel, power a corrupter, glorya bubble, and excessive wealth a libel on its possessor.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#11. There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.

Tacitus

#12. Even prior to marriage and motherhood, it's always been about prioritising and focusing on what you can commit to. That's been my approach to every aspect of my life, be it my relationships or my professional commitments.

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

#13. There are always risks in challenging excessive police power, but the risks of not challenging it are more dangerous, even fatal.

Hunter S. Thompson

#14. Changing your mind is probably one of the most beautiful things people can do. And I've changed my mind about a lot of things over the years.

Paul Auster

#15. The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas or the errors of autocracy.

John Maynard Keynes

#16. Christians have an unfair advantage in the marketplace of ideas: We have truth on our side! You

William Lane Craig

#17. The history of the twentieth century was dominated by the struggle against totalitarian systems of state power. The twenty-first will no doubt be marked by a struggle to curtail excessive corporate power.

Eric Schlosser

#18. This regard for the liberties of Europe, this care at one time for the protestant interest, this excessive love for the balance of power, is neither more nor less than a gigantic system of outdoor relief for the aristocracy of Great Britain.

John Bright

#19. We need more windows for the houses. And for men, more reason!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#20. Discontented inhabitants who willingly admit a foreign power either through excessive ambition or through fear, as was the case with the Etolians, who admitted the Romans into Greece. So it was with every province that the Romans entered: they were brought in by the inhabitants themselves.

Niccolo Machiavelli