Mason Cooley Power Quotations

All the powers of imagination combine in hypochondria.

Helplessness is a mighty power.

Intelligence without power cannibalizes itself.

Errors are more numerous than truths, but fortunately too divided among themselves to take power.

The more powerless people are, the longer they are kept waiting.

Everyone values the good nature of a man with a gun.

Power makes gods. Virtue makes martyrs.

The lion cares less about being king of the beasts than about finding his dinner.

The party out of office becomes the articulate one.

Lawyers may reason powerfully, but power settles most issues.

If you have no power, talk about your influence. If you have power, talk about the constraints that hem you in.

Children must be protected not because they are innocent but because they are powerless.

Out of power, Marxism can develop critical intelligence; in power, it quickly becomes stupid.

Knowledge and power in the city; peace and decency in the country.