Quotes About Power

It is said culture requires slaves. I say that no cultured society can be built with slaves. This terrible Twentieth Century has made all cultural theories from Plato down seem ridiculous. Little man, there has never been a human culture.

Power, no matter what kind of power it is, without a foundation in truth, is a dictatorship, more or less and in one way or another, for it is always based on man's fear of the social responsibility and personal burden that "freedom" entails.

One cannot equate "capitalism" and "democracy.

The word fascism is not a word of abuse any more than the word capitalism is. It is a concept denoting a very definite kind of mass leadership and mass influence: authoritarian, one-party system, hence totalitarian, a system in which power takes priority over objective interests, and facts are distorted for political purposes. Hence, there are "fascist Jews," just as there are "fascist Democrats.

Without the power to put them into practice, truths are of no use. They remain academic. Power, no matter what kind of power it is, without a foundation in truth, is a dictatorship, more or less and in one way or another, for it is always based on man's fear of the social responsibility and personal burden that "freedom" entails. Dictatorial power and truth do not go together. They are mutually exclusive.

When social cooperation is disrupted, state power is always strengthened.

The fascist mentality is a mentality of the subjugated "little man" who craves authority and rebels against it at the same time

Ça??m?zdaki genel eziyetçi y?k?c?l?k do?al sevisel ya?ama vurulan amans?z ketlerin sonucudur.

Üstelik, sana bir y???n söz söyleyerek, senin ve ya?am?n?n, ailenin ve çocuklar?n?n birer hiç oldu?unu anlat?yorlar; aptal, köleli?e elveri?li ve ba?kalar?n?n kullanaca?? birer insan oldu?unuzu söylüyorlar, insan?n size diledi?i i?lemi uygulayaca??n? hayk?r?yorlar. Size "ki?isel özgürlük" de?il "ulusal özgürlük" vaat ediyorlar.

Sen onlara ancak ?öyle sahip ç?kars?n küçük adam: Öteki küçük adamlar, bu büyük adamlar?n gerçekten büyük oldu?unu sana söyledi?i zaman.

Büyük sava?ç?lar?n yapt??? kötülükleri de?il de, büyük adamlar?n dü?üncelerini içinde duyabildi?in an, çocuklar?n?n ö?retmenlerine politikac?lardan çok daha fazla ücret verildi?i an, kad?nla erkek aras?ndaki sevgiye, bir evlenme cüzdan?na gösterdi?inden daha büyük bir sayg? duydu?un zaman güzel olacak ya?am?n.

dokunman?n yo?un oldu?u bir ili?kide, iki insan kendilerini birbirlerine kal?c? bir biçimde ba?l? hissederler. arzulanan dokunu?lar?n aç??a ç?kard??? enerjiler, doyurucu bir hayat için vazgeçilemeyecek kadar üretkindirler. O nedenle birçoklar?nda öyle büyüktür, dokunma özlemi. (dokunman?n gücü üzerine, 10)

Man is more disposed to domination than freedom; and a structure of dominion not only gladdens the eye of the master who rears and protects it, but even its servants are uplifted by the thought that they are members of a whole, which rises high above the life and strength of single generations.

Possession, it is true, crowns exertion with rest; but it is only in the illusions of fancy that it has power to charm us.

How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is.

Our words are giants when they do us an injury, and dwarfs when they do us a service.

Women can resist a man's love, a man's fame, a man's personal appearance, and a man's money, but they cannot resist a man's tongue when he knows how to talk to them.

But not to know error is to lie, is to spit up poison through the harrowing margins of weakened mineral campaigns. It is the deeply filtered and the wretched who deny this, who test themselves with exoteric perfection, who turn their branded melodias to simple outward gain. In contrast to the rotation of immensity, to the treble glare of inward cyclical rarity, such outward wit carries less than the power of negation.

being water i am the voltage of rocks

because there is nothing so arousing as fear and submission and the threat of violence.

Some people lose all respect for the lion unless he devours them instantly. There is no pleasing some people.

You can't do much for the poor, as they are not in with the right people.

As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.

It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.