Quotes About Power

Their insatiable lust for power is only equaled by their incurable impotence in exercising it.

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been tried from time to time.

The soft underbelly of the Axis.

The wars of peoples will be more terrible than those of kings.

I have not become the King's First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire.

It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.

The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.

Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.

Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount.

Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.

The eagle has ceased to scream, but the parrots will now begin to chatter. The war of the giants is over and the pigmies will now start to squabble.

The year that Hitler came into power the prestigious Oxford Union, a student debating society, overwhelmingly approved a motion stating that "this House will in no circumstances fight for its King and Country," and within a short period similar resolutions were adopted by most of England's other colleges and universities. When

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Stalin's opinion on the subject boiled down to this: "Education is a dangerous weapon, whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands, and at whom it is aimed.

Stalin believed all of his life, were a sign of weakness. If the people only pushed harder, the government would collapse and socialism would prevail.

Americans have seen fit to elect twelve generals to the U.S. presidency, but even before there was a United States of America generals ruled the earth. Take

As we will see in the following pages, peacetime is not always kind to generals and they do not necessarily do well outside their task of generaling. Perhaps that is because during war they become as close to gods on earth as we are ever likely to see. Patton

They had graduated from cloth-and-wood flying machines in the dawn of human flight to steel and aluminum behemoths with thousands of horsepower and terrific firepower;

The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.

The strongest person is not the one who is able to do something, but the one who is able not to do what he has the power to do. This self-denial is the unique way to usher in God's kingdom and to realize the kingdom life.

Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.

Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.