Distribution Of Power Quotes

• The UN to some extent diffuses U.S. power. Therefore it's less direct an agency of the United States than the U.S. Army is. But still, it can't escape the distribution of power in the world.

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  Noam Chomsky

  Army   Distribution Of Power   Agency  

  "Chomsky: "The Business Elites ... Are Instinctive Marxists"". Interview with Keane Bhatt, www.truth-out.org. November 19, 2010.

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• Historically the great movements for human liberation have always been movements to change institutions and not to preserve them intact. It follows from what has been said that there have been movements to bring about a changed distribution of power to do - and power to think and to express thought is a power to do- so that there would be a more balanced, a more equal, even, and equitable system of human liberties.

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  John Dewey

  Wisdom   Thinking   Distribution Of Power  

  John Dewey (1987). “The Later Works, 1925-1953”, p.362, SIU Press

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• Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.

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  Benjamin Disraeli

  Real   Distribution Of Power   Political  

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.5026, Delphi Classics

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• America is now the only global superpower, and Eurasia is the globe's central arena. Hence, what happens to the distribution of power on the Eurasian continent will be of decisive importance to America's global primacy and to America's historical legacy.

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  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Distribution Of Power   America   Historical  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski (2016). “The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy And Its Geostrategic Imperatives”, p.194, Basic Books

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• The regular distribution of power into distinct departments; the introduction of legislative balances and checks; the institution of courts composed of judges holding their offices during good behavior; the representation of the people in the legislature by deputies of their own election . . . They are means, and powerful means, by which the excellences of republican government may be retained and its imperfections lessened or avoided.

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  Alexander Hamilton

  Powerful   Mean   Distribution Of Power  

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, Quentin P. Taylor, John Jay (1998). “The Essential Federalist: A New Reading of the Federalist Papers”, p.109, Rowman & Littlefield

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• In this distribution of powers the wisdom of our constitution is manifested. It is the province and duty of the Executive to preserve to the Nation the blessings of peace. The Legislature alone can interrupt those blessings, by placing the Nation in a state of War.

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  Alexander Hamilton

  War   Blessing   Distribution Of Power  

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1842). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788”, p.410

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• If I were doing the Security Council today, I'd have one permanent member, the United States, because that's the real reflection of the distribution of power in the world. All international laws are invalid, meaningless attempts to constrict American power.

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  John Bolton

  Real   Reflection   Distribution Of Power  

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• Smoking dope and hanging up Che's picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps. A revolution in consciousness is an empty high without a revolution in the distribution of power. We are not interested in the greening of Amerika except for the grass that will cover its grave.

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  Abbie Hoffman

  Drinking   Commitment   Dope  

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• Socialism to me is establishing social control of power in society, and where that differs from liberalism for example which aims at a similar situation in some respects, is we think you can only establish control over power by changing the structure and distribution of power, notably economic power.

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  Denis Healey

  Thinking   Distribution Of Power   Example  

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• The real world of American society is one which it is very misleading to call simply a democracy. Of course, it is in a sense a democracy, but it is one in which there are enormous inequities in the distribution of power and force. For example, the entire commercial and industrial system is in principle excluded from the democratic process, including everything that goes on within it

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  Noam Chomsky

  Real   Distribution Of Power   Democracy  

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• Politics means striving to share power or striving to influence the distribution of power, either among states or among groups within a state.

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  Max Weber

  Mean   Distribution Of Power   Groups  

  Max Weber (2009). “From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology”, p.78, Routledge

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• [T]o preserve the republican form and principles of our Constitution and cleave to the salutary distribution of powers which that [the Constitution] has established . . . are the two sheet anchors of our Union. If driven from either, we shall be in danger of foundering.

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  Thomas Jefferson

  Distribution Of Power   Anchors   Two  

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson”

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• Trial by jury is a wise distribution of power which exceeds all other modes of trial.

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  Edward Coke

  Wise   Distribution Of Power   Trials  

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• Smoking dope and hanging up Che's picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps. A revolution in consciousness is an empty high without a revolution in the distribution of power.

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  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Drinking   Commitment   Dope  

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• People are dangerous. If they're able to involve themselves in issues that matter, they may change the distribution of power, to the detriment of those who are rich and privileged.

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  Noam Chomsky

  Power   Issues   People  

  David Barsamian, Noam Chomsky (2001). “Propaganda and the Public Mind: Conversations with Noam Chomsky”, p.30, Pluto Press

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