Quotes About Power

In a battle between force and an idea, the latter always prevails.

An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.

It is not true that were the Soviet Union to disappear the remaining states could easily live in peace.

Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun.

Justice of right is always to take precedence over might.

The leader of armies is the arbiter of the people's fate, the man on whom it depends whether the nation shall be in peace or in peril.

Before all else, be armed.

I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender.

To rob, to ravage, to murder, in their imposing language, are the arts of civil policy. When they have made the world a solitude, they call it peace.

What my enemies call a general peace is my destruction. What I call peace is merely the disarmament of my enemies. Am I not more moderate than they?

As you can see, even when [Adolf] Hitler desires to speak for peace, he cannot dispense with threats. This is symptomatic.

The revolution will not be televised.

Peaceful coexistence cannot be limited to the powerful countries if we want to ensure world peace.

War makes thieves and peace hangs them.

Wars have ever been but another aristocratic mode of plundering and oppressing commerce.

Only the winners decide what were war crimes.

It is useless to attack men who could not be controlled even if conquered, while failure would leave us in an even worse position.

Real power is not given to us or even created; real power is realized. It comes from realizing an inner sense of peace, self-worth, and happiness.

Where there are too many policemen, there is no liberty. Where there are too many soldiers, there is no peace. Where there are too many lawyers, there is no justice.

No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.

If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, it can become abject pacifism that turns the world over to the most ruthless.

What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war.

Compassion is even more powerful than courage. Sure, with courage you can conquer a world - but only with compassion can you heal and build it.

Whoever wants peace among nations must seek to limit the state and its influence most strictly.