Quotes About Power

I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse.

History is always written by the victor, and the histories of the losing parties belong to the shrinking circle of those who were there.

History, sociology, economics, psychology et al. confirmed Joyce's view of Everyman as victim.

Every bullet fired from the barrel of a police pistol was my bullet. If you call that murder, then I am the murderer.

Historians from England will say I am a liar, but history is written by those who have hanged heroes.

It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals

Only strong personalities can endure history, the weak are extinguished by it.

More history is made by secret handshakes than by battles, bills and proclamations.

If two irreconcilable elements are struggling with each other, the solution lies in force. There has never been any other solution in history, and there never will be.

Just in general, any government throughout history hasn't really wanted its people to be educated, because then they couldn't control them as easily.

Honest history is the weapon of freedom.

Energy deregulation will be the largest transfer of wealth in history.

The history of a revolution is for us first of all a history of the forcible entrance of the masses into the realm of rulership over their own destiny.

We must remember that one determined person can make a significant difference, and that a small group of determined people can change the course of history.

Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.

Read about the history of the place that we live in and stop letting corporate news tell lies to your children

The history of PR is... a history of a battle for what is reality and how people will see and understand reality.

George Orwell said, "Whoever controls the past controls the future," by which he meant that history is incredibly important in shaping the world view of the next generation of people.

History is written by the victors, but it's victims who write the memoirs.

From the totalitarian point of view, history is something to be created rather than learned.

The only real struggle in the history of the world ... is between the vested interest and social justice.

The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.

No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.

History is written by those who hang heroes.