Quotes About Power

Every revolutionary ends as an oppressor or a heretic.

Whoever today speaks of human existence in terms of power, efficiency, and ''historical tasks'' is an actual or potential assassin.

All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the State.

The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants

A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.

By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.

All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.

A free press can be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom a press will never be anything but bad.

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.

A slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown.

Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic.

Any power must be an enemy of mankind which enslaves the individual by terror or force, whether it arises under a facets government or communist flag. All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded to the individual.

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.

Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.

The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking... the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.

Politics is a pendulum whose swings between anarchy and tyranny are fueled by perpetually rejuvenated illusions.

The most powerful force in the universe is compound interest

I regard class differences as contrary to justice and, in the last resort, based on force.

Our world faces a crisis as yet unperceived by those possessing power to make great decisions for good or evil. The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking, and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophes.

This new phenomena [atomic energy] would also lead to the construction of bombs…. A single bomb of this type, carried by boat and exploded in a port, might very well destroy the whole port, together with some of the surrounding territory. However, such bombs might very well prove to be too heavy for transportation by air.

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

The minority, the ruling class at present, has the schools and press, usually the Church as well, under its thumb. This enables it to organize and sway the emotions of the masses, and make its tool of them.

An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.