Quotes About Power

For the first time in the history of mankind, one generation literally has the power to destroy the past, the present and the future, the power to bring time to an end.

Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.

Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

It is an echo, in fact, from the last lines of Dante's Divine Comedy, the lines in which Dante describes what it is to feel ecstatic bliss in the mystical union with God, to give up your entire identity and subsume it beneath the sacred power of God's divine love, the love that moves the sun and the other stars.

One cannot conceive of grander burial than that which mighty mountains bend, crack and shatter to make. Or a nobler tomb than the great upper basin of Denali.

God called, 'Come to my feast.' Then what happened? Rockefeller, Morgan, and their crowd stepped up and took enough for 120 million people and left only enough for 5 million of all the other 125 million to eat. And so many millions must go hungry and without these good things God gave us unless we call on them to put some of it back.

There's no reason for the establishment to fear me. But it has every right to fear the people collectively - I am one with the people.

To us power is, first of all, the ability to define phenomena, and secondly the ability to make these phenomena act in a desired manner.

The only difference I ever found between the Democratic leadership and the Republican leadership is that one of them is skinning you from the ankle up and the other, from the ear down.

The Republicans, however, refused to let power slip from their hands so easily. The carpetbag governments in Louisiana and South Carolina announced that Rutherford B. Hayes (1822–93), the Republican candidate, had carried those states and was therefore elected President by a margin of one electoral vote. It was the most outrageous piece of election-rigging in American history (which is saying something) and for a moment it looked as if it might precipitate a renewal of civil war. The

The most successful politician is he who says what everybody is thinking most often and in the loudest voice. Theodore Roosevelt

Reason is not some external power which dictates how we should behave, but an internal power, integral to who we are ... Reason does not command that we love anyone. Nonetheless, reason is vital in determining whom we love and why we love them.

Une chemise si blanche qu'elle devait être branchée sur le secteur.

One hair of a woman can draw more than a hundred pair of oxen" James Howell

Imagine that you have to break someone's arm.

Having a vote once every four years is not the same thing as democracy.

Marx is only half right when he calls religion the opium of the people. It may turn a lot of people into sheep, but it turns far too many of them into tigers.

The tools of the mind can be wrongly used, but the mind possesses no wrong tools.

Nought remains But vindictiveness here amid the strong, And there amid the weak an impotent rage.

I think we are suffering from political impotence. We need political Viagra.

I hereby accuse the North American empire of being the biggest menace to our planet.

The world has enough for everybody, but some minorities, the descendants of the same people that crucified Christ, and of those that expelled Bolvar from here and in their own way crucified him . . . have taken control of the riches of the world.

We must confront the privileged elite who have destroyed a large part of the world.

It is no less ancient than a pestilent error wherewith many men (but they chiefly who abound in power and riches) persuade themselves, or (as I think more truly) go about to persuade, that right and wrong are distinguished not according to their own nature but by a certain vain opinion and custom of men.