Quotes About Power

At no point in history have so many non-risk-takers, that is, those with no personal exposure, exerted so much control.

War is one of the constants of history, and it has not diminished with civilization or democracy.

Here's what I've learned: that someone can change the course of history with a box cutter.

History, in other words, is just a device to be used by well-paid boobherds to drive the American cattle in bovine content to their pastures or to the abattoir.

History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government.

The US wants to subdue Russia, to solve US problems at Russia's expense. No one in history ever managed to do this to Russia, and no one ever will.

History is the study of the world's crime

All of political history history can be summed up as a struggle to throw the bad guys out and put the good guys in.

Freedom does not always win. This is one of the bitterest lessons of history.

all history shows that the hand that cradles the rock has ruled the world, not the hand that rocks the cradle!

A ruin is not just something that happened long ago to someone else; its history is that of us all, the transience of power, of ideas, of all human endeavors.

History is at once freedom and necessity.

The greatest concubines in history knew that everything revealed with nothing concealed is a bore.

Many of us ask what can I, as one person, do, but history shows us that everything good and bad starts because somebody does something or does not do something.

In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.

History is almost always written by the victors and conquerors and gives their view. Or, at any rate, the victors' version is given prominence and holds the field.

that's me. ancient history." [Poseidon to Paul]

The rich experience of history teaches that up to now not a single class has voluntarily made way for another class.

The history of the United States is a history of settler colonialism.

We must be the great arsenal of Democracy.

I am a machine, condemned to devour them and then, throw them, in a changed form, on the dunghill of history.

The struggle between centralization and decentralization is at the core of American history.

In prison we are their jailers On trial their judges Persecuted their punishers Dead their conquerors

Every so often a book comes along that has the power to alter the course of history. Project Animal Farm is that potent.