Quotes About Unchecked Power

#1. An immigration violation should not give the government license to rip up the rule book. By restricting judicial oversight and blocking public scrutiny, the government has exercised virtually unchecked power over those it has detained.

Jamie Fellner

#2. The real reason for democracy is just the reverse. Mankind is so fallen that no man can be trusted with unchecked power over his fellows.

C.S. Lewis

#3. Unchecked power, driven by self-interest, scarcity, grandiosity and aggression, is deadly to God's original fruitful purposes.

Andy Crouch

#4. unchecked power corrupts.

Edward Gibbon

#5. Indifference, Gundhalinu, is the strongest force in the universe. It makes everything it touches meaningless. Love and hate don't stand a chance against it. It lets neglect and decay and monstrous injustice go unchecked. It doesn't act, it allows. And that's what gives it so much power." He

Joan D. Vinge

#6. Civilization is nothing else but the attempt to reduce force to being the last resort.

Jose Ortega Y Gasset

#7. The people, when they have been unchecked, have been as unjust, tyrannical, brutal, barbarous, and cruel, as any king or senate possessed of uncontrollable power. The majority has eternally, and without one exception, usurped over the rights of the minority.

John Adams

#8. There is a special grief felt by the children and grandchildren of those who were forbidden to read, forbidden to question or to know.

Alice Walker

#9. The accretion of dangerous power does not come in a day. It does come, however slowly, from the generative force of unchecked disregard of the restrictions that fence in even the most disinterested assertion of authority.

Felix Frankfurter

#10. She was entirely unaware of the protocol when becoming acquainted with a man's rampant sex organ. Did she reach out and give it a handshake? Touch one finger to the tip? Bid it a polite howdoyoudo?

Tessa Dare

#11. Playing Shakespeare is really tiring. You never get to sit down, unless you're the king.

Josephine Hull

#12. Everything has become intellect, even our bodies, they aren't bodies any more, but ideas of bodies, something that is situated in our own heaven of images and conceptions within us and above us, where an increasingly large part of our lives is lived.

Karl Ove Knausgard

#13. Fear unchecked grows exponentially. Love poured forth has the power to remove it. Thus is the power of God in our lives

Marianne Williamson

#14. Those of us who are condemned as radicals, idealists, and dreamers call for basic reforms that, if enacted, would make peaceful reform possible. But corporate capitalists, now unchecked by state power and dismissive of the popular will, do not see the fires they are igniting.

Chris Hedges

#15. Try to act like a human, if you're not a one yet

R.Gayan Priyankara

#16. After all, our Constitution was intended as a popular document. It was drafted and ratified by the people. It established democratic institutions. It entrusts the people with the power to make the tough decisions. And, in most cases, it prefers the will of the people to the unchecked rule of judges.

Mike DeWine

#17. Unchecked pride evolves into swagger, a hypnotizing mask of insecurity that can and does compromise our ability to make progress and attain power. Pride stands in the way of forgiveness and a strategic approach to navigating a chessboard rigged to prevent pawns from becoming kings and queens.

Jason Whitlock

#18. There have always been arguments showing that free will is an illusion: some based on hard physics, others based on pure logic.

Ted Chiang

#19. Daemon arched a brow. "You don't wanna play, Barf, because we can do that nifty freeze thing and play, right here and now." Oh, for the love of backwoods babies everywhere, this wasn't necessary. I wrapped my fingers around Daemon's tense arm. "Come on," I whispered.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#20. Bastard had the bad manners to die before we were through talking to him.

Maya Banks

#21. Bel jumped to his feet, rubbing his wrists where the shel'dor piercings had chafed. "All right, kem'jetos. First we save Rain and Ellysetta, then we kick some Elden ass.

C.L. Wilson