Quotes About Power

It is in the social sphere, in the realm of politics and economics, that the Will to Order becomes really dangerous.

The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.

War is the ultimate tool of politics.

You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.

Men in high levels of government seldom surf.

If you think Hollywood is depressing and corrupt, politics is really depressing and corrupt -- and fueled even more than Hollywood by money -- if that's possible.

Remember that politics, colonialism, imperialism and war also originate in the human brain.

When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power.

Politics has become unbelievably and unfortunately way too much about how much money is involved rather than what kind of ideas are involved.

Distracting a politician from governing is like distracting a bear from eating your baby.

Politics is about winning. If you don't win, you don't get to put your principles into practice. Therefore, find a way to win, or sit the battle out.

The Senate just sits and waits till they find out what the president wants, so they know how to vote against him.

Politics is the art of acquiring, holding, and wielding power.

Revolutions are not made for export.

Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.

A great deal of world politics is a fundamental struggle, but it is also a struggle that has to be waged intelligently.

She didn't know a lot about politics – yet – but she'd learned enough in her history classes to know politics could always be counted on to make a bad situation worse.

The Congress has historically played covert communal politics in order to create what in India we call vote banks where you pit one community against another and so on in order to secure votes.

In politics nothing is immutable. Events carry within them an invincible power. The unwise destroy themselves in resistance. The skillful accept events, take strong hold of them and direct them.

In politics, love is a stranger, and when it intrudes upon it nothing is being achieved except hypocrisy.

You cannot adopt politics as a profession and remain honest.

In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.

They that possess the prince possess the laws.

You may not think about politics, but politics think about you.