Quotes About Power

Wird einem Demokraten ein Finger brandig, fällt ihm nur eines ein: Ein Gesetz zu fordern, das das Abschneiden aller Hände anordnet.

The society of the future: slavery without masters.

Die Tyrannei eines Individuums ist dem Despotismus des Gesetzes vorzuziehen, denn der Tyrann ist verwundbar und das Gesetz unkörperlich.

Natural inequalities would make the democrat's life bitter, if slander did not exist.

Der Fortschrittler triumphiert immer und der Reaktionär hat immer recht. Recht haben heißt in der Politik nicht die Szene beherrschen, sondern vom ersten Akt an die Leichen des fünften vorhersagen.

The democratic historian teaches that the democrat kills only because his victims force him to do so.

Democracy celebrates the cult of humanity on a pyramid of skulls.

History exhibits two types of anarchy: that which emanates from a plurality of forces and that which derives from a plurality of weaknesses.

Toda sociedade que se crê senhora de sua história, que se sente segura de seus propósitos, convicta da excelência de seus princípios e persuadida de possuir a verdade, tiraniza e oprime.

Generalizing extends our power and impoverishes our spirit.

Peace does not flourish except among moribund nations. Under the sun of iron hegemonies.

Los políticos, en la democracia, son los condensadores de la imbecilidad.

Today's conservatives are nothing more than liberals who have been ill-treated by democracy

Among the vices of democracy one must count the impossibility of someone occupying an important position there without it being his ambition.

Modern man accepts any yoke, as long as the hand imposing it is impersonal.

The West withers every non-Western soul that touches it.

Capitalism is the monstrous distortion of private property by liberal democracy.

What is threatening about a technological device is that it can be used by someone who lacks the intellectual capacity of the man who invented it.

They started out calling liberal institutions democratic, and they ended up calling democratic despotisms liberal.

Power more surely corrupts the man who covets it than the man who exercises it.

Revolutions are frightening, but election campaigns are disgusting.

So wie es keine Tragödie gibt außer unter Fürsten und unter Götter, so gibt es keine Architektur außer für Götter und für Fürsten. Die moderne Architektur ist ein bürgerliches Melodrama.

The disaster of democracy only becomes apparent when its promises have been fully fulfilled.

Nicht nach Freiheit strebt der Verstand, sondern nach Unterwerfung. Die Wahrheit ist der Glanz der Notwendigkeit.