The American polity is infected with a serious imbalance of power between elites and masses a power which is the principal threat to our democracy.

The only power deserving the name is that of masses and of governments while they make themselves the organ of the tendencies and instincts of masses.

A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance but finding that they will read he is doing all in his power to poison their books.

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.

Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.

The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance pain torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.

Let's not dismiss or attack individual ideas as being inadequate before we have had a chance to assess their positive effect as part of a whole solution.

More Americans own their home than ever before. Nearly 70 percent of American's are homeowners. So it is a good time for us to asses the positive impacts of homeownership on families communities and on the nation's economy.

There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake art that stands above classes art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.