Quotes About Power

A Woodrow Wilson no lo amedrentaba la guerra. Su obra de teatro favorita era Enrique V, de Shakespeare, y le gustaba la cita: Si es pecado codiciar el honor, soy el mayor de todos los pecadores.

How exciting to be at the center of power." "It is exciting, but strangely enough it doesn't feel like the center of power. In a democracy the president is subject to the voters." "But surely he doesn't just do what the public wants." "Not exactly, no. President Wilson says a leader must treat public opinion the way a sailor deals with the wind, using it to blow the ship in one direction or another, but never trying to go directly against it.

With faultless good manners they would lead the world to destruction.

He had quoted Lenin: 'He who controls Berlin, controls Germany; and who controls Germany, controls Europe.

And so, Aldred thought, great ones sin with impunity while lesser men are brutally chastised.

the Germans have got to be stopped. They think they're entitled to rule the world!" Da said: "We're British. Our empire holds sway over more than four hundred million people. Hardly any of them are entitled to vote. They have no control over their own countries. Ask the average British man why, and he'll say it's our destiny to govern inferior peoples.

They wanted to look as if they had the right to close meetings and empty buildings, to burst into homes and offices and arrest people, to drag them to jails and camps and beat them up, interrogate and torture them, as

It's increasing the pressure on the Big Mules

Le monde du pouvoir, des biens terrestres exigeait qu'un homme fût méfiant, exigeant et insistant

en política, la memoria podía alargarse mucho.

Communists in power would be as oppressive as the aristocracy they replaced.

As in every country, Walter thought gloomily, army officers were pressing their political masters to take the first steps to war. It

It looked, she thought, as if the hand of God had come down over England and struck the earth, destroying everything men had made except churches.

Boy did not see why two great nations such as England and Germany should go to war over a half-barbaric wasteland such as Poland.

If you want to change the world, then foreign relations is the field in which you can do the most good – or evil.

Maud had feared this. Fitz was no compromiser. He believed that Britain should issue orders and the world should obey. The idea that the government might have to negotiate with others as equals was abhorrent to him. And there were distressingly many who agreed.

A man who has no fear can do anything he wants, Feliks thought. He had learned that lesson eleven years ago, in a railway siding outside Omsk. It had been snowing . . .

Don't be a hero. Leave that to them that started the war—the upper classes, the Conservatives, the officers.

Like all diplomats, Walter hated it when monarchs talked directly to each other, instead of through their ministers. Anything could happen then.

International politics is like a glass. Aggressive moves by either side pour water in. The overflow is war." Dimka

So much hangs on the decisions of a small number of poorly educated people." "That's democracy." Gus smiled. "A terrible way to run a country, but every other system is worse.

There was much talk about why the prime minister had brought back such a troublesome and unpredictable colleague, and the consensus was that he preferred to have Churchill inside the tent spitting out.

If you owe a hundred dollars, the bank has you in its power; but if you owe a million dollars, you have the bank in your power.

Despite everything they say, they are not popular. And the longer they stay in government, the better people will get to know their wickedness.