Quotes About Power

It gave dirty politics a bad name.

There's a tendency, especially among academics, to see politics as deeply dirty and deeply egotistical.

From politics it was an easy step to silence.

American politics is a struggle, not of men but of forces. The men become every year more and more creatures of force, massed about central power houses.

In politics, purity is the enemy of victory.

You can hardly judge women's effect on politics merely from the action of individual women officeholders.

It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it.

Activity in politics also produces eager competition and sharp rivalry.

Our elections are free-it's in the results where eventually we pay.

Politics is much too serious to be taken too seriously; equally, there are many aspects of it so laughable as to be lamentable.

In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent.

It is a game, the whole ball of wax is a game - your life, my life, politics, economy, hunger.

When personal freedom's being abused, you have to move to limit it.

One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one.

What chance of survival does a culture have when its own elites actively seek its destruction?

I think I could argue that the press has more impact on politics than corporations.

Revenge is not a good thing. Revenge is like politics: one thing always leads to another until bad has become worse, and worse has become worst.

Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good.

Politics is the shadow cast on society by big business.

Explosion without an objective', declared Miles Blundell, 'is politics in its purest form'.

All politics is a struggle for power; the ultimate kind of power is violence.

I think politics come out of psychology.

Which is stronger, politics or love? is like asking, Which is stronger, exhaling or inhaling? They are two sides of the same thing.