Power Protection Quotes

The law, unfortunately, has always been retained on the side of power; laws have uniformly been enacted for the protection and perpetuation of power.

The prohibitions of international law are largely toothless, especially when the abusive governments remain in power. The international community has established criminal tribunals to try abusers, but those who remain in power are ordinarily shielded from prosecution by their governments and its protection.

America’s super-elite has been particularly effective at using the tools of a political democracy to protect its minority privilege.

Bureaucracy is adept at protecting its nest.

All forms of power - even based on the consensus of the democratic system - react when they are being attacked, or when those who exercise power become a target.

The Washington establishment and the financial and media corporations that fund it exist for only one reason: to protect and enrich itself.

Unsurprisingly, an uninterruptible power supply (UPS) - once a luxury for room-sized computer installations - is now a standard item both in home offices and all the networked tiers above, protecting servers and online service providers, Internet backbones, phone companies, and even cable TV networks.

To enable men to exercise that power is the object of protection.

U.S. international and security policy ... has as its primary goal the preservation of what we might call "the Fifth Freedom," understood crudely, but with a fair degree of accuracy, as the freedom to rob, to exploit and to dominate, to undertake any course of action to ensure that existing privilege is protected and advanced.