Quotes About Power

The sword called to her, and somehow Arturus felt it.

Command isolated her more effectively than a deadly disease.

This hand can birth children. This hand can make music. This hand can kill you.

In society just as in the soul, when hierarchies abdicate the appetites rule.

Wise politics is the art of invigorating society and weakening the State.

The two terms of the democratic alternative today—oppressive bureaucracy or repugnant plutocracy—are canceling each other out. Combining into a single term: opulent bureaucracy. At once repugnant and oppressive.

The so highly acclaimed "dominion of man over nature" turned out to be merely an enormous capability to kill.

It is no longer enough for the citizen to submit—the modern state demands accomplices.

Colonialism's true crime was to turn the great Asiatic peoples into the outskirts of the West.

Het volkse verwarren met het democratische is de strategie van de democraat.

Reformar la sociedad por medio de leyes es el sueño del ciudadano incauto y el preámbulo discreto de toda tiranía. La ley es forma jurídica de la costumbre o atropello a la libertad.

Universal suffrage in the end does not recognize any of the individual's rights except the "right" to be alternately oppressor or oppressed.

Rulers who represent only a minority have to invent civilization in order not to perish. The delegates of a majority, on the other hand, can be vulgar, rude, cruel, with impunity. The greater the majority that supports him, the less cautious the ruler is, the less tolerant, the less respectful of human diversity. When rulers deem themselves governors of all humanity, terror is near.

To find oneself at the mercy of the people's whims, thanks to universal suffrage, is what liberalism calls the guarantee of freedom.

The liberation promised by every invention ends with the growing submission of the man who adopts it to the man who manufactures it.

The political presence of the masses always culminates in a hellish apocalypse.

The Left does not always kill, but it always lies.

Society tends to be unjust, but not in the way the conceited imagine. There are always more masters who do not deserve their position than servants who do not deserve theirs.

The worst [type of] totalitarianism is not that of a state or a nation, but of society: society as the all-encompassing goal of all goals.

Neither a declaration of human rights, nor the proclamation of a constitution, nor an appeal to natural law, protects against the arbitrary power of the state. The only barrier to despotism is customary law.

Totalitarismus" ist die empirische Realität des "Gemeinwillens" (Volonté générale)

La condición suficiente y necesaria del despotismo es la desaparición de toda especie de autoridad social no conferida por el Estado.

Between the dictatorship of technology and the technology of dictatorship, man no longer finds a crack through which he can slip away.

La política sabia es el arte de vigorizar la sociedad y de debilitar el Estado.