Quotes About Power

In actual fact those who do not care for politics and sit on the fence do indeed side for a political party: The ruling party.

Authority doesn't work without prestige, or prestige without distance.

About 25 years ago, I started out as a reporter covering politics. And that sort of just evolved into organized crime, because organized crime and politics were the same thing in Boston.

Through talk, we tamed kings, restrained tyrants, averted revolution

What good would politics be, if it didn't give everyone the opportunity to make moral compromises.

I've seen many politicians paralyzed in the legs as myself, but I've seen more of them who were paralyzed in the head.

There is no such thing as gratitude in international politics.

If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Everybody in politics lies, but they do it with such ease, it's troubling.

Government as well as religion has furnished its schisms, its persecutions and its devices for fattening idleness on the earnings of the people.

Currency warfare is the most destructive form of economic warfare.

The commonwealth of Athens is become a forest of beasts.

In politics, what appears is.

In the era of imperialism, businessmen became politicians and were acclaimed as statesmen, while statesmen were taken seriously only if they talked the language of succcessful businessmen.

Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men most.

Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Unlimited campaign spending eats at the heart of the democratic process.

Democracy, in its best state, is but the politics of Bedlam; while kept chained, its thoughts are frantic, but when it breaks loose, it kills the keeper, fires the building, and perishes.

Political institutions are a superstructure resting on an economic foundation.

Politics is social work with power.

Politics, as any observer of the modern world knows, is the enemy of economics, everywhere and always.

There will never be a really free and enlightened state until the state comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived.

Whoever you are, or want to be, you may not be interested in politics, but politics is interested in you.

I'm a statistic in a system that a civil servant dominates.