Quotes About Power

Until democracy in effective enthusiastic action fills the vacuum created by the power of modern inventions, we may expect the fascists to increase in power after the war both in the United States and in the world.

The symptoms of fascist thinking are colored by environment and adapted to immediate circumstances. But always and everywhere they can be identified by their appeal to prejudice and by the desire to play upon the fears and vanities of different groups in order to gain power.

What we must understand is that the industries, processes, and inventions created by modern science can be used either to subjugate or liberate. The choice is up to us.

There are probably several hundred thousand if we narrow the definition to include only those who in their search for money and power are ruthless and deceitful.

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.

Modern politics is, at bottom, a struggle not of men but of forces. The men become every year more and more creatures of force, massed about central power-houses. The conflict is no longer between the men, but between the motors that drive the men, and the men tend to succumb to their own motive forces.

Those who seek education in the paths of duty are always deceived by the illusion that power in the hands of friends is an advantage to them.

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

All State education is a sort of dynamo machine for polarizing the popular mind; for turning and holding its lines of force in the direction supposed to be most effective for State purposes.

Any schoolboy could see that man as a force must be measured by motion, from a fixed point.

Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.

Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts.

Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Modern politics is, at bottom, a struggle not of men but of forces.

The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies.

Politics... have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Politics, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

A friend in power is a friend lost.

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. The imagination must be given not wings but weights.

The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the five hundred, he reaches the five hundred thousand.

The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate men

Will God ever ask you to do something you are not able to do? The answer is yes--all the time! It must be that way, for God's glory and kingdom. If we function according to our ability alone, we get the glory; if we function according to the power of the Spirit within us, God gets the glory. He wants to reveal Himself to a watching world.

History is powerful stuff. One day your world is fine. The next day it's knocked for a metaphysical loop. Was Napoleon really at Waterloo Would that change what I had for breakfast

Ivy League bumblers and drunks who had once pulled the levers of secret gov't in an age of high anxiety...These were the bastards who beat the bastards, unless it was all just dumb luck.