Politics and Power

There are laws to protect the freedom of the press's speech, but none that are worth anything to protect the people from the press

If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it.

Why waste your money looking up your family tree? Just go into politics and your opponent will do it for you.

Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.

The individual cannot bargain with the State. The State recognizes no coinage but power: and it issues the coins itself.

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.

Only he who has no use for the empire is fit to be entrusted with it.

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.