Quotes About Power

History without politics descends to mere Literature.

A Peace to End All Peace.

If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell.

The Pentagon is, admissibly, the most powerful institution in history.

We like to imagine that in history, truth will prevail through sheer persuasive power. Sadly, this is not the case. Truth needs champions.

Since Eve negotiated Adam, I am the most disadvantaged negotiator in history of mankind. I have no army, no navy, no air force, no economy.

If America wants to retain its position as a global power, its president must listen to the people and show strong leadership at this turning point in human history.

Things spoken can be forgotten and forgiven, but the written word has the power to change the course of history, to alter our lives.

History is now strictly organized, powerfully disciplined, but it possesses only a modest educational value and even less conscious social purpose.

The past has always been the handmaid of authority.

There's a creativity, a power, an energy, an ability to do things unlike any other period in history. It's a little bit like sitting in the Renaissance, but multiplied a thousand-fold.

The victory of liberalism enables them to sue their victors.

But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous.

We can trace almost all the disasters of English history to the influence of Wales.

The queens in history compare favorably with the kings.

I think that many people in history who had power were bumped off because they had power.

Politics are vulgar when they are not liberalised by history, and history fades into mere literature when it loses sight of its relation to practical politics.

The state is and has been in history a source of disorder and chaos, and this problem gets worse the more the state grows.

History, contrary to popular theories, is kings and dates and battles.

Assassination has never changed the history of the world.

The entire history of mankind is, in any case, nothing but a prolonged fight to the death for the conquest of universal prestige and absolute power.

Somewhere, something incredible happened in history - the wrong guys won.

Don't get small units caught in between the forces of history.

Making a history was not what I wanted to do. I wanted to construct something more powerful than that.