#political power

A cult is a religion with no political power. ↗

— Tom Wolfe

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If modernist naturalism were true, there would be no objective truth outside of science. In that case right and wrong would be a matter of cultural preference, or political power, and the power already available to modernists ideologies would be overwhelming. ↗

— Phillip E. Johnson

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Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun. ↗

— Mao Zedong

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You can use a biography to examine political power, but only if you pick the right guy. ↗

— Robert Caro

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It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic power. ↗

— Jose Saramago

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Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills? ↗

— Khalil Gibran

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Though, with the ascendancy of Louis, the political power of the nobles finally came to an end, France remained, in the whole complexion of her social life, completely aristocratic. ↗

— Lytton Strachey

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Any man who has ever tried to use political power for the common good has felt an awful sense of powerlessness. ↗

— Robert Casey

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All wars come to an end, at least temporarily. But the authority acquired by the state hangs on; political power never abdicates. ↗

— Frank Chodorov

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It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

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