Quotes About Power

War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.

We have a theoretical concept of the Revolution which is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.

It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.

The socialized state is to justice, order, and freedom what the Marquis de Sade is to love.

Islam is politics or it is nothing.

The decisive means for politics is violence.

A government is an institution that holds a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence.

No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.

To change masters is not to be free.

Politics and hypocrites is turning us all into lunatics.

It is not power that corrupts but fear.

Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.

All political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure, because that is the nature of politics and of human affairs.

I just received the following wire from my generous Daddy; Dear Jack, Don't buy a single vote more than is necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.

Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.

What's going on in the Senate is kind of a politics of escalation. We're getting sort of like the Mideast: pay back everybody when you're in charge.

I'm sayin', why spend mine when I can spend yours?

Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.

Politics means striving to share power or striving to influence the distribution of power, either among states or among groups within a state.

Presidents are selected, not elected.

Everything is art. Everything is politics.

If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.

Politics is not bean bags. It's serious, tough stuff.

The bedfellows politics made are never strange. It only seems that way to those who have not watched the courtship.