Quotes About Power

Five or six hundred heads cut off would have assured your repose, freedom and happiness.

No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.

I think: the powers like to talk about "freedom" in order to wash the population's brains.

Where there is authority, there is no freedom.

In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.

The press was to serve the governed, not the governors.

Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.

You get your freedom by letting your enemy know that you'll do anything to get it. Then you'll get it. It's the only way you'll get it.

A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years.

Free speech is meaningless if the commercial cacophony has risen to the point where no one can hear you.

Let us remember that revolutions do not always establish freedom.

I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

People have so manipulated the concept of freedom that it finally boils down to the right of the stronger and richer to take from the weaker and poorer whatever they still have.

The best slave is the one who thinks he is free.

Democracy is not freedom. Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to eat for lunch.

If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves.

It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority.

Freedom cannot be granted. It must be taken.

What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.

Freedom for the pike is death for the minnow.

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.

Freedom for the wolves has often meant death to the sheep.

It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power, in number, in pride, in absolute dominion over the economy and the society.

The American people are free to do exactly what they are told.