Quotes About Power

In India all politicians, except members of the Gandhi family, have to protect their base.

The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny

Only a government that is rich and safe can afford to be a democracy, for democracy is the most expensive and nefarious kind of government ever heard of on earth

Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing the matter with this, except that it ain't so.

A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or a newspaper the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.

I'm the man they call Sudden Death and General Desolation! Sired by a hurricane, dam'd by an earthquake…. When I'm playful I use the meridians of longitude and parallels of latitude for a seine, and drag the Atlantic Ocean for whales! I scratch my head with the lightning and purr myself to sleep with the thunder!

To lodge all power in one party and keep it there is to insure bad government.

Power, money, persuasion, supplication, persecution—these can lift at a colossal humbug—push it a little—weaken it a little, century by century, but only laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.

We have the best government that money can buy.

Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain't so.

All kings is mostly rapscallions.

Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is the lightning that does the work.

Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it.

Fleas can be taught nearly anything a congressman can.

Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre but they are more deadly in the long run.

Some men worship rank, some worship heroes, some worship power, some worship God, and over these ideals they dispute, but they all worship money.

There is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.

It is an old prerogative of kings to govern everything but their passions.

It's funny how the hippies and the punks tried to get rid of the conservatives, but they always seem to get the upper hand in the end.

The most powerful music is music with purpose.

I have 2 weapons; my arms, my legs and my brain.

I've been to Canada, and I've always gotten the impression that I could take the country over in about two days.

The behavior of any bureaucratic organization can best be understood by assuming that it is controlled by a secret cabal of its enemies.

If people want to compete for leadership of a religious group, they can compete in piety. A chilling thought. Or funny.