Quotes About Power

has all the benefits of being a king with none of the burdens. He does not have to feed his kingdom or keep his citizens safe. He does not have to worry about the disfavor of the church or infighting in his court. He has no court, no successors. He

I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system.

The 'anti-globalisation movement' is the most significant proponent of globalisation - but in the interests of people, not concentrations of state-private power.

The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.

The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.

The government of Israel doesn't like the kinds of things I say, which puts them into the same category as every other government in the world.

Concentration of executive power, unless it's very temporary and for specific circumstances, let's say fighting world war two, it's an assault on democracy.

I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere.

There is no reason to accept the doctrines crafted to sustain power and privilege, or to believe that we are constrained by mysterious and unknown social laws. These are simply decisions made within institutions that are subject to human will and that must face the test of legitimacy. And if they do not meet the test, they can be replaced by other institutions that are more free and more just, as has happened often in the past.

For the powerful, crimes are those that others commit.

See, people with power understand exactly one thing: violence.

Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.

Anger is a futile emotion. The man who is angry loses more energy than his victim. So if you are angry you put yourself at a disadvantage.

Education is political.

God knows, for all the power of this office, the President is rarely nothing more than a public relations man trying to talk people into doing things they ought to do

in a democracy the great leaders are allowed to lead only because they are elected.

And Jesus looking upon them saith, With men it is impossible, but not with God: for with God all things are possible (Mark 10:27 KJV).

She forgot the three F's," Julia whispered to Sara Moulton: "Feed 'em, fuck 'em, and flatter 'em.

Anger sends out a strange energy, like a force field in a science fiction movie. It repels. It destroys.

Fate is a girl with scissors

Noli me tangere; for Caesar's I am.

by God he has the right sow by the ear.

palms and blackened

I'd been at the mercy of a prick on a power trip, the kind of buttoned-up bantam rooster who gets off on control and then, when you resist him, tells you that you've got issues with control.