Quotes About Power

Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.

All revolutions devour their own children.

There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.

I think the big problem is you have a vicious cycle of wealth and power in America that's just gotten completely out of control and you've seen it in politics.

The greatest and most powerful revolutions often start very quietly, hidden in the shadows. Remember that.

People are increasingly beginning to feel that democracy itself is being destroyed by this latest phase of globalization and that politics doesn't matter because it changes nothing.

Dictators free themselves by enslaving others. They work not for your benefit, but their own.

Politics needs a flexible mind, for it has no immutable or eternal rules. In politics immutable or eternal rules lead to inevitable and swift defeat.

Politics is the systematic cultivation of hatred.

Politics: the art of appearing candid and completely open while concealing as much as possible.

In politics, an organized minority is a political majority.

Politics is a game requiring great coolness.

Blood is thicker than water, but politics are thicker than blood.

Under every stone lurks a politician.

All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.

Sovereign is he who decides on the exception.

There is nothing to which men cling more tenaciously than the privileges of class.

When you get too big a majority, you're immediately in trouble.

Power politics is the diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

If Communism goes, I've still got the U.S. House of Representatives.

Revenge is one of the few things in politics that never gets lost in the mail or written off for a dime on the dollar like losers' campaign debts or pledges to help the Poor.

Whenever we defend democracy we find oil.

People too smart to get involved in politics are doomed to live in societies run by people who aren't.

Laws cannot be imposed on him who is the master of the law.