Quotes About Power

El mayor poder es el que consigue que se haga lo que pretende sin que nadie se dé cuenta.

F]ortune governs one half of our actions, but even so she leaves the half more or less in our power to control." Even in this area of apparent control, it would be necessary to adapt to circumstances. Free will suggested the possibility of fitting events to an established character; Machiavelli suggested that the character would be shaped by events.

el arte de la dialéctica de dos voluntades opuestas que utilizan la fuerza para resolver su disputa».[1]

Emplear ejércitos para ataques ocasionales, asaltos contra los recursos económicos del enemigo, para amenazar o desmoralizar a la población enemiga puede resultar una forma alternativa de coacción frente a la batalla abierta.

Don't you see that the whole aim of newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? —George Orwell,

Y si bien la fuerza física puede ser derrotada por una fuerza superior, la m?tis puede derrotar a cualquier fuerza.

Así pues, el territorio de la estrategia es la negociación y la persuasión, al igual que las amenazas y la presión, se recurre tanto a los efectos psicológicos como a los físicos, y a las palabras como a los hechos. Esta es la razón por la que la estrategia es el arte esencial de la política. Y se trata de conseguir de una situación concreta más de lo que el equilibrio inicial de fuerzas podría sugerir. Es el arte de crear poder.

We may be likened to two scorpions in a bottle, each capable of killing the other, but only at the risk of his own life. —J. Robert Oppenheimer

The state's authority would come from one of three sources: tradition, bureaucracy, or charisma.

Lenin fue capaz de montar una campaña muy oportuna para hacerse con el poder aprovechando las ventajas de un partido organizado, un estado desorganizado y una sociedad civil débil.

La persuasión exigía utilizar palabras convincentes: de los que saben pero no tienen «el poder para expresarlo claramente», bien se puede decir que no saben nada.

The core proposition was that a minority would always rule over a majority.

Who says organization, says oligarchy." This was Michels's "iron law.

Fear of black rebellion among planters was deep and long-standing. 7 It began in the first years that African slaves were brought ashore, but in 1739, an incident of unprecedented ferocity caught every slaveowner in its grip.

Constitutional Law is merely politics made incomprehensible to the common man.

It is one of the enduring ironies of history that established systems of hierarchy rarely find it necessary to rely on sensible defenses as an essential means of maintaining power.

But I have long loved the written word, and come to see in it the power of the sleeping lion. This is my name. This is who I am. This is how I got here. In the absence of an audience, I will write down my story so that it waits like a restful beast with lungs breathing and heart beating.

Spiritual and cultural strength is measured not by rigidity or power, but by the vitality and flexibility of the response.

When government disappears, it's not as if paradise will take its place. When governments are gone, other interests will take their place.

Mas apenas eleições não fazem uma democracia. Democracia quer dizer poder para o povo, mas poder quer dizer algo mais que apenas eleições. Em nossa tradição isso também significa controle através de críticas racionais.

Overregulation corrupts citizens and weakens the rule of law.

We take this for granted in America today: a democracy in which the first test of credibility is not votes, or broad public support, but money.

Magic is the deliberate manipulation of coincidence.

The real power in Ottawa, as in Washington, is in the executive branch. At the White House, there are daily briefings for reporters. In Ottawa, there is no such daily access. The media doesn't demand it, and as a result, major powerbrokers remain virtually anonymous.