Quotes About Power

For truth and death are similar in that they both require a great courage if one wishes to face them. And truth is like death in that it kills. When I killed I did it with truth not with a knife. That is why they are afraid and in a hurry to execute me. They do not fear my knife. It is my truth that frightens them.

A successful prostitute was better than a misled saint. All women are victims of deception. Men impose deception on women and punish them for being deceived, force them down to the lowest level and punish them for falling so low, bind them in marriage and then chastise them with menial service for life, or insults, or blows.

I knew that successful politicians cannot bear to accept defeat within themselves. A human being cannot stand up to a double defeat. That is the secret of their continuous attempt to rise to power. They draw a feeling of supremacy from their power over others. It makes them feel victorious rather than defeated. It hides how essentially hollow they are inside, despite the impression of greatness they try to spread around them, which is all they really care for.

he explained to me that refusing a Head of State could be looked upon as an insult to a great man and lead to strained relations between the two countries. He added that if I really loved my country, if I was a patriot, I would go to him at once. So I told the man from the police that I knew nothing about patriotism, that my country had not only given me nothing, but had also taken away anything I might have had, including my honour and my dignity.

You can't ban books, people will find them

Ölümle gerçek birbirlerine benzer. Gerçekler de insan? öldürdüÄŸü için , ölüm gibidir. Ben bir insan? öldürdüÄŸüm zaman, onu b?çakla deÄŸil, gerçekle öldürdüm. Bu yüzden korkuyorlar; beni yok etmek için bu yüzden acele ediyorlar. B?çaktan korkmazlar. onlar? korkutan gerçeÄŸimdir!

It is left to each of us to balance contentment regarding what God has allotted to us in life with some divine discontent resulting from what we are in comparison to what we have the power to become.

People who spend their time searching for feet of clay will miss not only the heavens wherein God moves in His majesty and power, but God's majesty as He improves and shapes a soul.

When Tony Benn became a minister in the 1960s -- and I think this must be apocryphal -- he had a huge map of Britain hung upside down in his office, so the channel was at the top and Scotland was at the bottom and, apparently, he said, "This is how we need to look at this country, with the money and the power draining by force of gravity out of the south east." That was a great idea. I rather liked him for that. I don't know if it's actually true or not.

For the past 15 years or so, British governments have tried to persuade the rest of us that the best judges of the national interest are ... businessmen. This may be a ridiculous statement, but--ominously--fewer and fewer people laugh at it.

But the people did get it. They had lost something -- not exactly their fear, but their patience. Suddenly it seemed unbearable to go on accepting these systems, these portly little idiots in their blue suits, for another year, and then for another day, another hour. That special sort of impatience is the power-surge of revolution.

It was a real revolution. But with one missing feature. That is the feeling in a people that "We have done it once, and if the new lot let us down, we can do it again!" It was that proud, menacing confidence which made the French revolution special. But it's not around in 21st-century Europe. After 1989, the people handed over liberty to the experts. Will they ever want it back?

The greater the power and extent of the state, the more room there is for corruption.

When depression controls the mind, its power increases when the mind remains inactive. It is like a computer virus spreading to occupy unused processing space. You can fight it by keeping busy. There are other ways to fight it: exercising releases endorphins to counter it, or manufactured drugs can be used. Those who suffer learn many such techniques to defeat it, or they go under.

So that means about twelve billion people dead. And the remaining six billion ruled by a government that would even like to control their thoughts.

When you destroyed autocratic regimes, you caused more death and suffering than the regime itself, and often ended up with something worse. Your violent revolutions never resulted in anything better, and your revolutionaries always turned into the thing they despised.

It is in fact a harsh reality that he who believes killers are an aberration is also he who has the boot planted firmly on his neck;

when the revolutionary cries that he is fighting for "freedom," be sure to go running away from him just as fast as you can, for you can be damned certain he's fighting for the freedom to tell you what to do. ANTARES

breadth of experience is worthwhile in my estimation. Consider this another nugget of wisdom: you don't want to end up so lost in your power and omniscience that you forget how to take a shit.

However, let us not presume politicians are ineffectual, for whenever the bombs and napalm are falling, the mines taking off legs and the bullets punching holes in human flesh, they are always behind the firing line, deciding who should die.

every new "danger" pointed out to them by the elites, which, of course, each needed "regulation." The politicians who made and imposed the rules considered themselves

technology is merely a tool and any blame always rests squarely on the one wielding that tool. Saul

The storm raged with renewed power. Visibility was zero. The general lassitude of all members of the party was still very much in evidence." All the world was snow and wind, and there appeared no escape from its hold.

Our current income tax plan was designed by politicians; as such, it was designed to benefit politicians and serve their ends. Frank Chodorov, one of America's past champions of liberty, once observed that, by enacting the income tax, the American government was proclaiming that all wealth belonged to the government, and whatever wealth the government did not seize from the person who created it should be looked on as a concession—a gift from the government.