Quotes About Power

Wieso seid ihr stärker als die Wahrheit

Wer sich nicht mit Politik befaßt, hat die politische Parteinahme, die er sich sparen möchte, bereits vollzogen: er dient der herrschenden Partei.

Allied powers provided for their own peoples levels of nourishment which they denied to others, including societies notionally under their protection.

The prime principle of employing force in pursuit of national objectives is to ensure that it is effective.

All his life, the ruler of Russia displayed towards able comrades a blend of admiration and envy which impelled him to murder most of them sooner or later.

Diplomacy without politics is ultimately impotent.

Stalin would ultimately prove the most successful warlord of the conflict, yet no more than Hitler

Possession of armed might can be corrupting: it feeds an itch among those exercising political authority to put it to practical use. Successive Washington administrations have been seduced by the readiness with which they can order a deployment, and see this promptly executed. It is much easier to commit armed forces, especially air power, in pursuit of an objective than to grapple the complexities of social and cultural engagement with an alien people.

In Soviet thinking the concept of economy of force has little place. Whereas to an Englishman the taking of a sledgehammer to crack a nut is a wrong decision and a sign of mental immaturity...in Russian eyes the cracking of nuts is clearly what sledgehammers are for.

Germany's highest commander succumbed to a disease common among senior soldiers of many nationalities and eras: he wished to demonstrate to his government and people that their vastly expensive armed forces could fulfil their fantasies.

Machiavelli observed that 'wars begin when you will, but do not end when you please'.

On 1 November the old OSS man arrived by appointment at army headquarters, wearing uniform and carrying a .357 revolver together with $US40,000 in cash, which he deemed the appropriate fashion accessories for an afternoon's work overthrowing a government.

He has nothing useful to say about fascism who is unwilling to mention capitalism.

Es justamente el espíritu dominador de la naturaleza el que continuamente reivindica la superioridad de la naturaleza en la competencia

La Ilustración se relaciona con las cosas como el dictador con los hombres. Éste los concede en la medida en en que puede manipularlos.

Do not confuse your vested interests with ethics. Do not identify the enemies of your privilege with the enemies of humanity.

A world technology means either a world government or world suicide.

The Seven Deadly Sins of the Press: Concentrated Power of the Big Press. Passing of competition and the coming of monopoly. Governmental control of the press. Timidity, especially in the face of group and corporate pressures. Big Business mentality. Clannishness among the newspaper publishers that has prevented them from criticizing each other. Social blindness.

We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.

hard race from the north who ruled Kemet with iron,

He is a man. He is governed by power and riches and by his testicles.

Ressentiment must therefore be strongest in a society like ours, where approximately equal rights (political and otherwise) or formal social equality, publicly recognized, go hand in hand with wide factual differences in power, property, and education.

The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual, crime.

My power is my property. My power gives me property. My power am I myself, and through it am I my property.