Quotes About Power

Two kinds of men generally best succeed in political life; men of no principle, but of great talent; and men of no talent, but of one principle - that of obedience to their superiors.

To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places.

Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.

Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.

We live under a government of men—and morning newspapers.

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty power is ever stealing from the many to the few.

One on God's side is a majority.

When I want to find the vanguard of the people I look to the uneasy dreams of an aristocracy and find what they dread most.

Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.

It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong.

This effort [to establish racism, sexism and homophobia as morally heinous in law] also casts the law in particular and the state more generally as neutral arbiters of injury rather than as themselves invested with the power to injure. Thus, the effort to "outlaw" social injury powerfully legitimizes law and the state as appropriate protectors against injury and casts injured individuals as needing such protection by such protectors.

But Sanskrit, the language of power, emerged in India from a minority, and at first its power came precisely from its nonintelligibility and unavailability, which made it the power of an elite group.

Kautilya makes Machiavelli look like Mother Teresa

As long as it was just a matter of graft and the lust for power, the British treated the people they robbed as human beings. It was religion that made them treat them like devils

When people see you're happy doing what you're doing, it sort of takes the power away from them to tease you about it.

Some days you control life; other days life controls you." Philip

Admit it, if you suddenly had magical powers, you would have turned that leftover meat loaf into pizza, too.

The pawn protects every piece on the board," Bob says, "even though it can't make as many different moves. And if you can get it to the other side of the board safely, it becomes a much more powerful piece, like a knight or a queen.

You built this place with your imagination, but you breathed life into it, and now it's as real as anyplace else. When you're ready, this is where you will come to focus your power. For now, it waits.

No one has the right to place one human being in a position of political power over another.

Nim loved the ocean because it was always there, wherever she looked and as far as she could see, but it was too huge and powerful to understand and too dangerous to

She felt like a tiger in a cage, trying to burst free.

The more someone supported the regime, the more he was scared of it.

Blood is what moves people. Blood is the force of the revolution.