Quotes About Power

The Best and the Brightest

Here were the terms of the de facto truce: as long as the special counsel and his people did not press him too far, the president would not yet confront them. And as long as Trump still had the power to carry out his threats to annihilate Mueller's team, they would not yet confront him.

Bob and Rebekah Mercer, who had set themselves up as almost professional fools.

the three men working hardest to maneuver the president—Bannon, Kushner, and Priebus.

Still, power provides its own excuses for social lapses.

The theologian and the executioner have been intimates throughout history.

The cross of Christ gave power to the powerless. It gave strength to the weak. It brought salvation to repentant sinners. It brought hope to the hopeless. It gave peace to troubled hearts. What was true then it is still true today.

War does not determine who is right, but who is left." —old military proverb Caledonia

They can stop their government any time they wish, simply through brute force or civil disobedience. No tyrant ever rules without the consent of the ruled. They are guilty by their inaction. "And

The limitation of tyrants is the endurance of those they oppose." —Frederick Douglass

War does not determine who is right. War determines who is left.

Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer." —Ludwig Von Mises

there is nothing less heroic than the mutual embrace of capitalism and democracy.

Capitalism is neither a person nor an institution. It neither wills nor chooses. It is a logic at work through a mode of production: a blind, obstinate logic of accumulation.

L'ARBRE GEANT FREMISSAIT sous les coups de hache. A coté du colosse végétal, les hommes à la peau sombre, luisante de sueur, ressemblaient à des miniatures mouvantes. [...] La grande forêt pris le deuil. Les bruits les plus fantastiques se mirent à courir : on avait tué l'Arbre-Dieu.

Les 5 règles de la propagande de guerre : Cacher l'histoire, cacher les intérêts économiques, diaboliser l'adversaire, blanchir nos gouvernements et leurs protégés, monopoliser l'info, exclure le vrai débat.

The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.

Man is certainly crazy. He could not make a mite, and he makes gods by the dozen.

The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mold…. The same reason that makes us bicker with a neighbor creates a war between princes.

It takes so much to be a king that he exists only as such. That extraneous glare that surrounds him hides him and conceals him from us; our sight breaks and is dissipated by it, being filled and arrested by this strong light.

Even on the highest throne in the world, we are still sitting on our ass.

On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.

Vladimir Poutine est d'autant plus martial qu'il n'a jamais connu la guerre. S'il aime à projeter l'image d'un héros viril, c'est qu'il est hanté par elle.

Even on the most exalted throne in the world we are only sitting on our own bottom.