From Who.What.Why are some classic quotes regarding power and the drivers that make it happen.
I have a problem with people who take the Constitution loosely and the Bible literally. (Bill Maher)
Religion: a sixteenth-century term for nationalism. (Sir Lewis Namier)
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful. (Seneca)
Hatred is the most accessible and comprehensive of all the unifying agents. Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a god, but never without a belief in a devil. (Eric Hoffer)
Don’t buy a single vote more than necessary. I’ll be damned if I’m going to pay for a landslide. (Joseph P. Kennedy)
Even the best-intentioned of great men need a few scoundrels around them; there are some things you cannot ask an honest man to do. (Jean de la La Bruyère)
In politics, nothing is contemptible. (Benjamin Disraeli)
When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer “Present” or “Not Guilty.” (Theodore Roosevelt)
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