Quotes About Power

Patience mimics the power of infinity.

Like Patience gazing on kings' graves, and smiling Extremity out of act.

Elephants suffer from too much patience. Their exhibitions of it may seem superb,-such power and such restraint, combined, are noble,-but a quality carried to excess defeats itself.

Only so much can be borne from men, so much from gods

Where annual elections end, there slavery begins ... Humility, patience, and moderation, without which every man in power becomes a ravenous beast of prey.

Anger is enough to destroy you

If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.

Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.

Wealth has never yet sacrificed itself on the altar of patriotism.

The hand that gives is among the hand that takes. Money has no fatherland, financiers are without patriotism and without decency, their sole object is gain.

Totalitarianism is patriotism institutionalized.

The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.

Flags are bits of colored cloth used first to shrinkwrap people's brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead.

The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny.

Public office is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

Unfortunately, religion, like patriotism, is easy to misuse for political purposes.

[W]e're taught that if one person kills another person, that is murder; but if a government kills a hundred thousand persons, that is patriotism.

Power is so pleasant that men quickly learn to be greedy in the enjoyment of it, and to flatter themselves that patriotism requires them to be imperious.

Why wouldn't you want to be the envy of your neighbors by being so good and so generous and so smart in how you use the power that you obviously have? That's my patriotism.

Socialism, hypnotism, patriotism, materialism, fools making laws for the breaking of jaws.

Democrats can give us wars, you know? Democrats can play the false patriotism card.

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious

They loved their country largely because they controlled it.

He who lives by the sword shall die by the sword ... unless he's a general.