Quotes About Power

Politics don't stop love. He will say to her: "You are as beautiful as our new hydro-electric plant." And she will reply: "Comrade, how progressive of you.

The difference between our democracy and a dictatorship is that we get to choose the person who is going to screw us.

Please remove your watch,' he said. 'In my domain time isn't a factor.

It used to be the players were here (lowering his arm) and owners were here (raising his arm). Now, it's the other way. There's so much money.

We were losers. We were baseball players. [Baseball executives] were businessmen. When you went into talk about a contract, they always had the upper hand. No matter if you hit 350 or 250, you were going to get what they wanted you to have.

I cracked one over a row a trailers that bordered the outfield fence- hit it so hard that Ted Williams came running out from the clubhouse wanting to know who it was that could a bat sound that way when it struck a baseball.

Kenneth Copeland: «Como creyente, tiene usted derecho a dar órdenes en el nombre de Jesús. Cada vez que se apoya en la Palabra, está ordenando a Dios hasta cierto nivel porque es Palabra de Él» (Our Covenant with God [KCP Publications, 1987], p. 32).

My daddy, he was somewhere between God and John Wayne.

To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.

Since one cannot educate adults, the word "education" has an evil sound in politics; there is a pretense of education, when the real purpose is coercion without the use of force.

A functionary, when he really is nothing more than a functionary, is really a very dangerous gentleman.

No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been.

Revolutionaries do not make revolutions! The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and when they can pick it up.

The road to totalitarian domination leads through many intermediate stages for which we can find numerous analogies and precedents.

In politics, love is a stranger, and when it intrudes upon it nothing is being achieved except hypocrisy.

Totalitarianism strives not toward despotic rule over men, but toward a system in which men are superfluous. Total power can be achieved and safeguarded only in a world of conditioned reflexes, of marionettes.

Bureaucracy, the rule of nobody.

The climax of terror is reached when the police state begins to devour its own children, when yesterday's executioner becomes today's victim.

Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.

Power and violence are opposites where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.

Empire abroad entails tyranny at home

Under conditions of tyranny it is far easer to act than to think.

The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist.

Before mass leaders seize the power to fit reality to their lies, their propaganda is marked by its extreme contempt for facts as such, for in their opinion fact depends entirely on the power of man who can fabricate it.