Quotes About Power

Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism.

Let us see whether it is the New Order or me who will be the loser before Indonesian history. I have won. The New Order has fallen and my writings have been translated into 40 languages.

Caesar had his Brutus, Charles the First his Cromwell; and George the Third — ['Treason!' cried the Speaker] — may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it.

Never in the history of the world has there been a situation so bad that the government can't make it worse.

We have no butter... but I ask you, would you rather have butter or guns? Preparedness makes us powerful. Butter merely makes us fat.

History is simply a piece of paper covered with print: the main thing is to make history, not to write it.

For words are magical formulae. They leave finger marks be hind on the brain, which in the twinkling of an eye become the footprints of history. One ought to watch one' s every word.

Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.

History is written by the victors.

Most of the mess that is called history comes about because kings and presidents cannot be satisfied with a nice chicken and a good loaf of bread.

It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins.

In capitalist history, invasion and class struggle are not opposites, as the official legend would have us believe, but one is the means and the expression of the other.

Call me an alarmist, but we are witnessing the beginning of the most frightening period of government tyranny in our nation's history.

[The Fuhrer] is one of those lonely men of the ages on whom history is not tested, but who themselves are the makers of history.

The midwife of history is violence.

What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race?

There would be no Lenin without Rasputin.

History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.

You will learn a lesson repeated through history, that no matter what you think, occupation is not victory!

There have been only rare moments in history where individual histories were able to run their course without wars or revolutions.

Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule.

What astounds me about the history of the British Navy is how cheaply we have policed the world for 300 years.

History is made and preserved by and for particular classes of people. A camera in some hands can preserve an alternate history.

If architecture is the history of all phallic emotion, the Empire State Building is utter catharsis, and we are sitting in its silhouette.