Quotes About Power

We have beams that can make people sick or kill them with microwaves.

Regulation of sexual behavior is the preferred route to wider social control.

Mankind will not be perfect until it can create and destroy like God. It can already destroy: that's half the battle.

What would be my power over you, when revealing my secrets towards you, especially when discovering yours?

Man does not steal, he conquers

There are no people in politics, only the ideas. There're no feelings, but only interests. In politics one does not kill a man, but removes an obstacle.

your fortune looks like the pyramids. When someone would want to tear them, he wouldn't dare to, and when he dares to, he couldn't do it.

God wants us to understand Him and to think about His power. That's why He has given us a free will.

Sure of himself, convinced of his own power, certain that the laws which rule other men could not reach him, he went straight to the object he aimed at, even were this object were so elevated and so dazzling that it would have been madness for any other even to have contemplated it.

Napoleon has still retained a train of parasitical satellites.

Give all the power to the many, they will oppress the few. Give all the power to the few, they will oppress the many.

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the Hand of Divinity itself, and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power.

Who talks most about freedom and equality? Is it not those who hold the bill of rights in one hand and a whip for affrighted slaves in the other?

A powerful, victorious ally is yet another name for master.

If we must have an enemy at the head of government, let it be one whom we can oppose, and for whom we are not responsible.

Vigor of government is essential to the security of liberty.

Put two macho groups together and give the first desperation and numbers, and the second truncheons and protective clothing, and the result is like a laboratory civil war.

If more women were in power, they wouldn't let wars break out, she said. Women can't be bothered with all this fighting. We see war for what it is- a matter of broken bodies and crying mothers.

Sociopaths are attracted to politics because the see it as a sphere in which you can be ruthless and step all over people. That fact that some politicians can tell such awful lies is another example of sociopathy. Sociopaths lie—they see nothing wrong with it.

Antonia was very conscious of the corrosive power of envy and felt that it was this emotion, more than any other, which lay behind human unhappiness. People did not realise how widespread envy was.

If we let the men talk about them and decide them, then suddenly we wake up and find out that the men have made all the decisions, and these decisions all suit men.

Words can make big things little, you know.

If more women were in power, they wouldn't let wars break out," she said. "Women can't be bothered with all this fighting. We see war for what it is—a matter of broken bodies and crying mothers.

Down below, amongst children, ice cream and chocolate are the bargaining chips supreme, as powerful as money and military force are amongst adults.