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Quotes About Power

If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face--forever.
~ George Orwell, 1984
Upper classes are a nation's past the middle-class is its future.
~ Ayn Rand
If you want a vision of the future, imagine someone watching a boot stamping on a human face - forever...and 'liking' it.
~ Dean Cavanagh
And I will never again underestimate the power of anticipation. There is no better boost in the present than an invitation into the future.
~ Caroline Kepnes, You
There can be no darker or more devastating tragedy than the death of man's faith in himself and in his power to direct his future.
~ Saul Alinsky
The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass and beyond there is a different country.
~ J. Robert Oppenheimer
GIS is waking up the world to the power of geography, this science of integration, and has the framework for creating a better future.
~ Jack Dangermond
With us air people, the future of our nation is indissolubly bound up in the development of air power.
~ Billy Mitchell
An Enlightened Master is ideal only if your goal is to become a Benighted Slave.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
It is possible to lead astray an entire generation, to strike it blind, to drive it insane, to direct it towards a false goal. Napoleon proved this.
~ Alexander Herzen
Great powers must be forever vigilant and never subordinate survival to any other goal, including prosperity.
~ John Mearsheimer
The goal, I submit, is obvious: subjugating the world (which is barbarian, dangerous, envious and ungrateful) to US power for the sake of America's interests.
~ Breyten Breytenbach
It's funny how social activists usually protest against the only things that have a credible chance of achieving the activists' goals.
~ Craig Reucassel
A politician's goal is always to manipulate public debate. I think there are some politicians with higher goals. But all of them get corrupted by power.
~ Dean Koontz
We need a national renewable energy goal. Such a goal, sometimes called a renewable energy standard (RES), would spell out what percentage of our power America plans to get from renewable sources.
~ Van Jones
With definite goals you release your own power, and things start happening.
~ Zig Ziglar
Socialism and interventionism. Both have in common the goal of subordinating the individual unconditionally to the state.
~ Ludwig von Mises
My goal was to make New Jersey's state government a model for all other states to emulate, hopefully thereby to stem, or at least slow down, the flow of power to the federal government.
~ Charles Edison
I think it would be great to play a superhero. That will be one of my goals.
~ Liana Liberato
Pinochet and Barack Obama both have the same primary goal, and that's to be president and stay president as long as allowed.
~ Viggo Mortensen
When we have a great goal we are superior even to justice, not merely to our deeds and our judges.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
The first goal of the technostructure is its own security.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
Is it possible for us to witness a world without America and Zionism? You should know that this slogan, this goal, can certainly be achieved.
~ Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation from their purposes.
~ Carl von Clausewitz