Quotes About Power

Avarice is patriotic!

The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders...tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger.

We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.

They have the guns and therefore we are for peace and for reformation through the ballot. When we have the guns then it will be through the bullet.

A State in the grip of neo-colonialism is not master of its own destiny. It is this factor which makes neo-colonialism such a serious threat to world peace.

My dynamite will sooner lead to peace than a thousand world conventions. As soon as men will find that in one instant, whole armies can be utterly destroyed, they surely will abide by golden peace.

We can do without butter, but, despite all our love of peace, not without arms. One cannot shoot with butter, but with guns.

Peace is purchased from strength. It's not purchased from weakness or unilateral retreats.

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Democracies die behind closed doors.

There are weapons that are simply thoughts. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy.

Peace is a very complicated concept. When the lion gobbles up the lamb and wipes his lips, then there's peace. Well, I ain't for that peace at all.

The Romans brought devestation, but they called it peace.

Feel me now, picture my pain, embrace my words, make the world change.

Peace without justice is tyranny

There is no peace now, and there will never be peace, so long as one rules over another.

Those who have changed the universe have never done it by changing officials, but always by inspiring the people.

Any nation that decides the only way to achieve peace is through peaceful means is a nation that will soon be a piece of another nation.

Peace is not the absence of conflict it is authority over chaos.

If I made peace with Russia today, I'd only attack her again tomorrow. I just couldn't help myself.

If I had rubies, riches, and crowns, I'd buy the whole world and change things around.

Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.

Although tyranny...may successfully rule over foreign peoples, it can stay in power only if it destroys first of all the national institutions of its own people.

For every moment the sea is peace and relief, there is another when it shivers and stirs to become chaos. It's just as ready to claim as it is to offer.