Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class
— Plato
Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun
— Mao Tse Tung
All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State
— Albert Camus
If the people are unhappy, it is because they are too wise
— Lao Tze
You can have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, or democracy. But you cannot have both
— Louis Brandeis
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors
— Plato
Words without actions are the assassins of idealism
— Herbert Hoover
Inherited economic power is as inconsistent with the ideals of this generation as inherited political power was inconsistent with the ideals of the generation which established our government
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
Let the people think they govern and they will be governed
— William Penn
Industrial capitalism is a system of rule; it rules the people by gaining control over their means of subsistence. Economic development is the extension of this system of rule to every corner of the globe
— C Douglas Lummis
What men want is not knowledge, but certainty
— Bertrand Russell
Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of State and corporate power
— Benito Mussolini (disputed quote)
The crowd is untruth
— Soren Kierkegaard
The struggle of people against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting
— Milan Kundera
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams