Quotes About Power

What is freedom? There is no such thing as absolute freedom!

The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.

Nonviolence is not a weapon of the weak. It is a weapon of the strongest and bravest.

Put your hands where I can see 'em, so they look like 12 PM On the dot, see this Glock? Don't make me give these shells freedom.

Intervene globally, lose freedom locally.

Painting depends on freedom. When you're feeling completely free, you can create, and this power to create is, in turn, the greatest freedom of all.

The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy; the best weapon of a democracy is openness.

Fifty-one percent of a nation can establish a totalitarian regime, suppress minorities and still remain democratic.

You are not controlling the storm, and you are not lost in it. You are the storm.

Tyranny and despotism can be exercised by many, more rigorously, more vigorously, and more severely, than by one.

The tyrant claims freedom to kill freedom, and yet keep it for himself.

When I am weaker than you, I ask you for freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am stronger than you, I take away your freedom because that is according to my principles.

As long as the mind is enslaved, the body can never be free. Psychological freedom, a firm sense of self-esteem, is the most powerful weapon against the long night of physical slavery.

Freedom only for the members of the government, only for the members of the Party - though they are quite numerous - is no freedom at all.

Freedom exists only with power.

America means opportunity, freedom, power.

He who once became aware of the power of Solidarity and who breathed the air of freedom will not be crushed.

The power of the State must be invoked for restoring economic freedom just as it has been invoked for destroying economic freedom.

We are squandering our wealth. In many respects, to the extent that we persist in our imperial delusions, we're also going to squander our freedom...

The secret of freedom, courage.

Someone that you have deprived of everything is no longer in your power. He is once again entirely free.

Man is not free unless government is limited.

He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.

Politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don't.