Quotes About Power

Bureaucracy will be the deity of the twentieth century.

We need a government, alas, because of the nature of humans.

The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.

When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.

Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy the whores are us.

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.

Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.

Love is a driver, bitter and fierce if you fight and resist him, Easy-going enough once you acknowledge his power.

Politicians are interested in people. Not that it is always a virtue. Fleas are interested in dogs.

Money is in some respects like fire; it is a very excellent servant but a terrible master.

Wagner drives the nail into your head with swinging hammer blows.

RUDENESS IS THE WEAK MAN'S IMITATION OF STRENGTH. —Eric Hoffer

Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.

The inordinate love of money, no doubt, may be and is the root of all evil, but money itself, when properly used, is not only a handy thing to have in the house, but affords the gratification of blessing our race by enabling its possessor to enlarge the scope of human happiness and human influence.

Prayer is not mere wishing. It is asking – with a will. . . . It is energy. We turn to an active Giver; therefore we go into action.

Once an idea is out and about, it can't be called back, silenced or erased. You can't contain it, any more than you could put the head of a dandelion back together after the wind has scattered its seeds.

They didn't come to crush the city. They came to crush the hubris of its king." "That must have hurt," Oates said. Umber pinched the bridge of his nose. "Hubris means arrogance, you great buffoon.

Plata o Plomo.

My creation will be your destruction.

Por cada segundo que pasa sin que aspiremos a democratizar los lugares donde se decide lo importante, aumenta sin cesar el enriquecimiento privado ilegítimo y el sufrimiento gratuito de la gente corriente.

alumbrar la nueva era tiene enfrente, siempre, el freno descomunal de los privilegiados.

Painting isn't an aesthetic operation; it's a form of magic designed as a mediator between this strange hostile world and us, a way of seizing the power by giving form to our terrors as well as our desires.

Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war for attack and defense against the enemy.

Durante las manifestaciones de la izquierda peronista se cantaría "Si Evita viviera, Isabel sería copera".