Quotes About Power

Well, as everyone knows, once witchcraft gets started, there's no stopping it.

You should never ask anyone for anything. Never- and especially from those who are more powerful than yourself.

History teaches us, however, that when the times are ripe for change and the government refuses or is unable to change, either society starts to decay or a revolution begins.

The accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power station was graphic evidence, not only of how obsolete our technology was, but also of the failure of the old system. At the same time, and such is the irony of history, it severely affected our reforms by literally knocking the country off its tracks.

Nuclear weapons are like a rifle hanging on the wall in a play. We did not write the play, we are not staging it and we do not know what the author intends. Anyone could take the rifle from the wall at any time.

I am not capable of true friendship. One of the two friends is always the slave of the other, although, often, neither of the two admits this to himself.

No matter how bad the lord is, the lout become a lord is ten times worse.

Such is the psychology of crowds that the majority will follow whoever appeared to be in power...

The struggle against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.

He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.

But when the strong were too weak to hurt the weak, the weak had to be strong enough to leave.

The magic of drama is infinitely more powerful than the magic of trickery. It is as available to the conjurer as it is to the actor. The only difference is that actors take it for granted, whereas few conjurers are even aware that it exists.

One word can sometimes be sharper than a thousand swords

You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think.

History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition.

The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

A society that puts equality... ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality nor freedom.

Our minds tell us, and history confirms, that the great threat to freedom is the concentration of power. Government is necessary to preserve our freedom, it is an instrument through which we can exercise our freedom; yet by concentrating power in political hands, it is also a threat to freedom. Even though the men who wield this power initially be of good will and even though they be not corrupted by the power they exercise, the power will both attract and form men of a different stamp.

I do not believe that the solution to our problem is simply to elect the right people. The important thing is to establish a political climate of opinion which will make it politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing. Unless it is politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing, the right people will not do the right thing either, or it they try, they will shortly be out of office.

Nesta terra, só os políticos podem dormir e acordar de bom humor.

congressman was a hog that could understand only a blow on the snout.

Learn everything. Fill your mind with knowledge—it's the only kind of power no one can take away from you." Hansu never told him to study, but rather to learn, and it occurred to Noa that there was a marked difference. Learning was like playing, not labor.

Fill your mind with knowledge—it's the only kind of power no one can take away from you.

But ideas can make men forget their own interests. And the guys in charge will exploit men who believe in ideas too much.