Quotes About Power

I will not concede for a moment that old privileges should not dwindle. They cannot dwindle fast enough.

Our democracies are increasingly captured by a ruling class that seeks to perpetuate its privileges.

The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power.

Israel's pro-American orientation exists not just among Israeli elites but also among the whole population. Come what may in Israel, it's inconceivable that this fundamental orientation will change. Combined with its overwhelming military power, this makes Israel a unique and irreplaceable American asset in the Middle East.

When mankind first saw the necessity of government, it is probable that many had conceived the desire of ruling.

I have a control problem. I hate the feeling of not being in control.

The relationship with my people, the Nigerian people, is very good. My relationship with the rulers has always been problematic.

I think society is both something that's very real and very powerful, but on the whole quite problematic.

The thing about a real economy is that it actually is like the game of Monopoly in the sense that when one person has all the money, the game is over. And in a game of Monopoly, of course, that's quite charming, but in a real economy, it's much more problematic.

A politician finds anything to do with racial problems far more frightening than a gun.

The accords were fig leaves of democratic procedure to hide the nakedness of Stalinist dictatorship.

If you have to abuse your power, you're probably in the process of losing it.

Clear limits should be set on how power is exercised in cyberspace by companies as well as governments through the democratic political process and enforced through law.

What we must understand is that the industries, processes, and inventions created by modern science can be used either to subjugate or liberate. The choice is up to us.

To a person growing up in the power of demography, it was clear that history had to do not with the powerful actions of certain men but with the processes of choice and preference.

Maduro distanced himself from democracy. He deconstructed the entire judiciary and blocked parliamentary processes.

Technology for technology's sake is not innovation. What we in the industry have to be concerned about is what products do, as opposed to what the processing power is.

The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man.

The social arrangements that produce responsibility are arrangements that create coercion, of some sort.

The United States is the only power in history that became great by giving and not by taking. I think the crisis was when the United States had more money than ideas. Money doesn't produce money. Ideas produce money.

There is an idea of democracy produced by one-sided thinking.

No pen can give an adequate description of the all-pervading corruption produced by slavery.

I'm really obsessed with this show right now called 'Power,' produced by 50 Cent.

England produced Shakespeare, and the British Empire the six-shilling novel.