Quotes About Power

When they die, aristocracies explode; democracies deflate.

Democratic massacres belong to the logic of the system. Ancient massacres to the illogicality of man.

Where everyone believes he has a right to rule, everyone eventually prefers that one man alone rule. The tyrant frees each individual from the tyranny of his neighbor.

We who want to admit nothing but what has value, will always seem naïve to those who recognize nothing but what is in force.

La revolución socialista se podrá consolidar solo a través de la destrucción del sistema burocrático y militar del Estado Burgués

The Power of the Universe will come to your assistance, if your heart and mind are in Unity. LAKOTA SAYING, passed down from WHITE BUFFALO CALF WOMAN

Now two punctilious envoys, Thine and Mine, Embroil the earth about a fancied line; And, dwelling much on right and much on wrong, Prove how the right is chiefly with the strong.

In the end, the bedrock of existence is not made up of the family, or work, or what others say or think of you, but of moments like this when you are exalted by a transcendent power that is more serene than love. Life dispenses them parsimoniously; our feeble hearts could not stand more.

I may be alone in this, but I do sense the power of film, in that movies have the ability to literally change people's minds. That's pretty powerful stuff when you consider that.

In cities the old are more corrupt than the young.

Anyone whose needs are small seems threatening to the rich, because he's always ready to escape their control.

Despising money is like toppling a king off his throne.

Peut-être les hommes apprendront-ils de leur passé, peut-être disparaitront-ils dans leur quête irraisonnée de pouvoir...

The great Creator has divided His power with no other being; far less with inanimate objects, as you have been taught to believe, for He alone is omnipotent and all-sufficient.

Loving a woman is always political.

Kathy Kerouac knew the power of her voice. It was, she said, her 'golden thing,' an amulet protecting her against all disorders of the spirit. Her voice was a charm that could stop violence and transform crudeness into curtesy, foolishness into finesse. So Kathy Kerouac was under the impression that nothing was ever altogether dangerous, the feeling that no word spoken could soil her world.

History choked me History took hold of my throat

I think actors are getting so much more power these days, but I'm not. I stay very much away from the decisions, the way in which things are orchestrated, what's been changed. I just try to stay completely in the role as the actor and as the character.

The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.

Our dear comrade Jiang Qing told us, 'Smash to pieces the security and law enforcement agencies.

He laid a hand on my arm and said calmly, with resignation, "Don't get excited and angry. It's useless to get angry with them. They have the last word always. If they say something happened, it happened. It's useless to resist. I've learned this from my personal experience.

Without an army, what can politicians achieve?

Mill is particularly concerned that minority opinions should not be silenced just because they are held by very few people. Unfashionable ideas have potential value for the whole of humanity, even if only held by one person: If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.

Support by United States rulers is rather in the nature of the support that the rope gives to a hanged man.