Quotes About Power

As long as we look to legislation to cure poverty or to abolish special privilege we are going to see poverty and special privilege grow.

Do you want to know the cause of war? It is capitalism, greed, the dirty hunger for dollars. Take away the capitalist, and you will sweep war from the earth.

The one aim of these financiers is world control by the creation of inextinguishable debt.

Public officials are all right if they stay in their proper sphere and perform their proper functions but when they get greedy for wider scope and more power and money they lose their value and become parasites.

As long as we look to legislation to cure poverty or to abolish special privilege we are going to see poverty spread and special privilege grow.

As long as we look to legislation to cure poverty or to abolish special privilege we are going to see poverty spread and special privilege grow. We

Perhaps no word is more overworked nowadays than the word "democracy," and those who shout loudest about it, I think, as a rule, want it least. I am always suspicious of men who speak glibly of democracy.

The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt.

What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.

The methods by which a trade union can alone act, are necessarily destructive its organization is necessarily tyrannical.

Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power.

behind dim empires vaguer ghosts of empire loom.

Why, in spite of increase in productive power, do wages tend to a minimum which will give but a bare living?

In all cases, such beliefs rest on the pagan superstition that the individual is not responsible for his acts; that he must depend on these superhuman persons who have both the right and the power to control the lives of people assumed to be their natural inferiors.

The first requisite of a sound monetary system is that it put the least possible power over the quantity or quality of money in the hands of the politicians.

The real offense, as she ultimately perceived, was her having a mind of her own at all. Her mind was to be his—attached to his own like a small garden plot to a deer park.

Ideas are, in truth, force.

If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.

Our authorities leave us no doubt that the trust lodged with the oligarchy was sometimes abused, but it certainly ought not to be regarded as a mere usurpation or engine of tyranny.

University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.

High office teaches decision-making, not substance…. A period in high office consumes intellectual capital; it does not create it.

A conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla army wins if it does not lose.

The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose.

The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.