Quotes About Power

To be governed ... is to be watched, inspected, directed, indoctrinated, numbered, estimated, regulated, commanded, controlled, law-driven, preached at, spied upon, censured, checked, valued, enrolled - by creatures who have neither the right, nor the wisdom, nor the virtue to do so.

Sei capace di dipingere dèi ed eroi, cittadino pittore? è un'assemblea di eroi quella che ti chiediamo. Dipingili come dèi o come mostri, o anche come uomini, se te ne viene l'estro. Dipingi Il Grande Comitato dell'anno II . Il Comitato di salute pubblica. Fanne quello che vuoi: santi, tiranni, briganti, principi. Ma mettili tutti insieme, in una bella riunione di famiglai, come fratelli.

dans une bibliothèque] Sentiment que tout était écrit, décrit, expliqué, mais surtout "révélé", pour peu qu'on sût trouver le bon chemin de mots. Sentiment de pouvoir, au hasard, ouvrir l'une des millions de portes du monde.

India is a global power and an important partner with whom we are building an intense, broad and enduring relationship.

The great are only great because we are on our knees. Let us rise

Laws! We know what they are, and what they are worth! Spider webs for the rich and powerful, steel chains for the weak and poor, fishing nets in the hands of the government.

Every State which breaks the equilibrium in its own favor only causes the other States to combine against it, and thereby diminishes its influence and power.

I think it's a shame that something as creative and vital to the nature of the human species as story-telling is largely controlled by the soulless cretins known as publishers.

By all means. Swords have ever been the best servants of crazy men.

More than generating mere accounting, these state-building practices sought eventually to replace traditional local relationships of power with new loyalties that tied individuals to the central state. To do so, however, meant breaking the traditional political dominance exercised by regional powerbrokers, the local nobility.

South Africa is not a jellyfish and is in many respects a swordfish.

The free world wants to feed South Africa to the Red Crocodile [communism], to appease its hunger.

I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself.

Zeus, accomplisher, to all grant grave restraint and attainment of sweet delight.

The race of gods and men is one, and from one mother we both draw our breath. Yet all the difference in our power holds us apart, so that man is nothing, but the brazen floor of heaven is eternally unshakable.

God has in his power to make dazzling unmixed light spring from the somber depths of evening. He can also enclose the white explosion of day under the gloom of black clouds.

I am convinced that there is no host in the world today who is both knowledgeable about fine things and more sovereign in power, whom we shall adorn with the glorious folds of song.

Porfirio Díaz era solito dire: "Povero Messico, così lontano da Dio e così vicino agli Stati Uniti".

We have to defend views we don't share and impose them on the public; deal with questions we don't understand and vulgarize them for the gallery. We can't have ideas of our own, we have to have those of the editor; and even the editor doesn't have the right to think with his own head, because when he's sent for by the board of directors he has to stifle his own views, if he has any, and support those of the shareholders.

Few men are so obstinate in their atheism, that a pressing danger will not compel them to acknowledgment of a divine power.....

Those who seek power are not worthy of that power.

Few men are so obstinate in their atheism, that a pressing danger will not compel them to the acknowledgement of a divine power.

Mankind will never see an end of trouble until... lovers of wisdom come to hold political power, or the holders of power... become lovers of wisdom.

Oligarchy: A government resting on a valuation of property, in which the rich have power and the poor man is deprived of it.