Quotes About Power

Not only is history written by the winners, it is also made by them.

For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington.

Under a democratical government the citizens exercise the powers of sovereignty; and those powers will be first abused, and afterwards lost, if they are committed to an unwieldy multitude.

The myth of the impossible dream is more powerful than all the facts of history.

The real movement of history, it turns out, is fueled not by matter but by spirit, by the will to freedom.

Donald Trump's fought maybe the greatest political machine in the history of the world.

Summation of Leviathan: "The axiom, fear; the method, logic; the conclusion, despotism."

Once a president gets to the White House, the only audience that is left that really matters is history.

It is the winners who write history - their way.

Sanctions make a substantial contribution to power based on privation, and they have never hurt a single despot in the whole history of their use.

The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.

All empires eventually destroy themselves. That's the record of history.

There is no record in the history of a nation that ever gained anything valuable by being unable to defend itself.

History tells me that when the Russians come to a country they don't go back.

Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.

Whatever we do or fail to do will influence the course of history.

The enemy will not perish of himself. Neither will the Chinese reactionaries nor the aggressive forces of U.S. imperialism in China step down from the stage of history of their own accord.

African history is filled with experiences of people shooting their way to power and then splintering into factions, like in Somalia and Liberia.

Anger does not make history. Power does. And power may be supplemented by anger, but it derives from more fundamental realities; geography, demographics, technology, and culture.

In past history popularly elected governments have been no better and sometimes far worse than overt tyrannies.

Things that change history tend to be organized.

Recorded history is wrong. It's wrong because the voiceless have no voice in it.

The slave trade was globalism. Why people insist that globalism, after its hideous history, is a good thing, I do not know.

There is as far as I know, no example in history, of any state voluntarily ceding power from the centre to its constituent parts.