Quotes About Power

Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means.

Politics is not really politics any more. It is run, for the most part, by Madison Avenue advertising firms, who sell politicians to the public the way they sell bars of soap or cans of beer.

In F1 too many things overshadow the racing. There is too much politics.

Politics is applied biology.

Politics is a deleterious profession, like some poisonous handicrafts.

Democracies must have equilibrium... and the entanglement of politics and information must be minimized.

No man could be equipped for the presidency if he has never been tempted by one of the seven cardinal sins.

Cryptography shifts the balance of power from those with a monopoly on violence to those who comprehend mathematics and security design.

The dull, purblind folly of the very rich men, their greed and arrogance, and the corruption in business and politics, have tended to produce a very unhealthy condition.

Since governments take the right of death over their people, it is not astonishing if the people should sometimes take the right of death over governments.

It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically.

Public opinion, or what passes for public opinion, is not invariably a moderating force in the jungle of politics.

The history of American politics is littered with bodies of people who took so pure a position that they had no clout at all.

All politics takes place on a slippery slope. The most important four words in politics are up to a point.

In politics, manipulating reality can take presidence over finding reality.

You suffer from the oldest delusion in politics. You think you can change the world by talking to a leader. Leaders are the effects, not the causes of changes.

...Politics is not about facts. It is about what politicians can get people to believe.

Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.

Those that deem politics beneath their dignity are doomed to be governed by those of lesser talents.

In politics, nothing is contemptible.

What I think the political correctness debate is really about is the power to be able to define. The definers want the power to name. And the defined are now taking that power away from them.

As government expands, liberty contracts.

Politics has slain its thousands, but religion has slain its tens of thousands.

In chess the rules are fixed and the outcome is unpredictable, whereas in Putin's Russia the rules are unpredictable and the outcome is fixed.