Quotes About Power

Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.

Everywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear.

Every high degree of power always involves a corresponding degree of freedom from good and evil.

To declaim freedom verses seems like a poem within a poem; freedom requires guns, it requires arms, but no feet.

It is doubtful whether the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and power-power to oppress others.

Truth gives no advantage. It gives no higher status, no power over others; all you get is truth and freedom from the false.

The government continues to erode our freedom.

Will is wish, and liberty is power.

People despise the lust for power that originates from a craving for homage and for the attributes of power.

... true financial freedom doesn't depend on how much money you have. Financial freedom is when you have power over your fears and anxieties instead of the other way around.

The English people think they are free; they are greatly deceived; they are free only during the election of members of Parliament.

Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody's slavery.

Freedom cannot be given... It can only be taken away.

Force is the antithesis of freedom, but force must be used, if only to defend against other force.

Conquerors never, never conquer a nation to bring freedom. They brought control.

I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy

Where freedom is real, equality is the passion of the masses. Where equality is real, freedom is the passion of a small minority.

The luxury to disparage freedom is the privilege of those who already possess it.

As I've said, freedom is really an illusion. Anytime we think we have a real choice, it just means we haven't seen the shotgun aimed at our navel.

America is a model of force and freedom and moderation - with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.

The powers that be understand that sexual freedom or liberation with any kind of joy means they are losing control.

The power to gossip is more democratically distributed than power, property, and income, and, certainly, than the freedom to speak openly.

Freedom is a rare and delicate plant. Our minds tell us, and history confirms, that the great threat to freedom is the concentration of power.

The Internet is uncontrollable. And if the Internet is uncontrollable, freedom will win. It's as simple as that.