Quotes About Power

In 1872 the anarchist leader Mikhail Bakunin warned Karl Marx that Communists in power would be as oppressive as the aristocracy they replaced. After what has happened in Russia, can you honestly say Bakunin was wrong?

1872 the anarchist leader Mikhail Bakunin warned Karl Marx that Communists in power would be as oppressive as the aristocracy they replaced. After what has happened in Russia, can you honestly say Bakunin was wrong?

America is free because it has disrespectful newspapers and television shows to expose and shame presidents

The working class are more numerous than the ruling class, and stronger. They depend on us for everything. We provide their food and build their houses and make their clothes, and without us they die. They can't do anything unless we let them.

Fitz was suspicious of peace plans. His main concern was that Britain should maintain its position as the most powerful nation in the world. He was afraid the Liberal government might let that position slip, out of some foolish belief that all nations were equally sovereign. Sir

El general rebelde, Franco, había conseguido el respaldo de la Iglesia católica.

quienes le trataban de forma hostil lo hacían debido a su propia debilidad.

Therefore I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow. Vice President Ford will be sworn in as president at that hour in this office." "Yes!" George punched the air. "He's done it! He's gone!" What Maria felt was not so much triumph as relief. She had woken up from a nightmare. In the dream, the highest officers in the land had been crooks, and no one could do anything to stop them.

El primer asunto que debían tratar cuando se iniciara la sesión esa tarde era la Ley de Habilitación, que permitiría que el gabinete de Hitler pudiera aprobar leyes sin el permiso del Reichstag.

John Locke and other philosophers said a government's authority could come only from the consent of the people.

Quien controle Berlín controlará Alemania, y quien controle Alemania controlará Europa».

el mayor problema del comunismo era que el poder absoluto del partido siempre sofocaba el cambio. El

The working class are more numerous than the ruling class, and stronger. They depend on us for everything. We provide their food and build their houses and make their clothes, and without us they die. They can't do anything unless we let them. Always remember that.

the importance of a free press, but it seemed to her that the lack of critical newspapers made it much easier for other forms of oppression to flourish.

La característica más asombrosa del liderazgo soviético de los anteriores sesenta y cinco años era la negativa a afrontar los hechos.

Maud knew the proprietor of the Mail, Lord Northcliffe. Like all great press men, he really believed the drivel he published. His talent was to express his readers' most stupid and ignorant prejudices as if they made sense, so that the shameful seemed respectable. That was why they bought the paper.

We hanged him in front of Kingsbridge Cathedral. It is the usual place for executions. After all, if you can't kill a man in front of God's face you probably shouldn't kill him at all.

Despite being some of the most powerful people in the world, the top men in the Kremlin were scared of stepping out of line. Marxism-Leninism answered all questions, so the eventual decision would be infallibly correct. Anyone who had argued for a different outcome was therefore revealed to be culpably out of touch with orthodox thinking. Dimka sometimes wondered if it was this bad in the Vatican.

The law makes no decisions. It has no will of its own. It's like a weapon, or a tool: it works for those who pick it up and use it.

So court often involved a power struggle between two more or less equal forces, as when a sailor found that the wind was blowing his boat one way while the tide took it another.

Americans talked about voters the way Russians talked about Stalin: they had to be obeyed, right or wrong.

the consensus was that he preferred to have Churchill inside the tent spitting out.

A clergyman can influence the mass of the people. If he preaches a sermon against the earl, or calls upon the saints to bring misfortune to the earl, people will begin to believe that the earl is cursed. Then they will discount his power, mistrust him, and expect all his projects to be doomed. It can be very hard for a nobleman to oppose a truly determined cleric. Look what happened to King Henry II after the murder of Thomas Becket.

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