Quotes About Power

Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men's views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.

The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.

The seed of revolution is repression.

Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of somebody, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.

You know how impossible it is, in short, to have a free nation if it is a military nation and under military orders

We can have no sympathy with those who seek the power of government to advance their own personal interests or ambitions.

If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are going to own it; what we have to determine now is whether we are big enough, whether we are men enough, whether we are free enough, to take possession again of the government which is our own.

No one set of interests can safely be suffered to dominate the country.

Movies are] like writing history with lightning.

We can afford to exercise the self-restraint of a really great nation which realizes its own strength and scorns to misuse it.

There must be, not a balance of power but a community power; not organized rivalries but a organized, common peace.

In my house I'm the boss. My wife is just the decision maker.

He never made the ten-most-wanted list. It's very unfair voting. It's who you know.

Some will rob you with a six-gunAnd some with a fountain pen.

Getting and spending we lay waste our powers.

The power of any art is limited

Education is like a double-edged sword. It may be turned to dangerous uses if it is not properly handled.

What is the good of being an island, if you are not a volcanic island?

Instead of the vast organization to exploit the weakness of the Many, should we not possess one for the exploitation of the intelligence of the Few?

Many a revolution started with the actions of a few. Only 56 men signed the Declaration of Independence. A few hanging together can lead a nation to change.

When did we begin to lose faith in our ability to effect change?

I don't think the mystical experience can be verbalized. When the ego disappears, so does power over language.

When the people who are in power want to ... create an image to justify something that's bad, they use the press. And they'll use the press to create a humanitarian image, for a devil, or a devil image for a humanitarian. They'll take a person who's a victim of the crime, and make it appear he's the criminal, and they'll take the criminal and make it appear that he's the victim of the crime.

I do not pretend to be a divine man, but I do believe in divine guidance, divine power, and in the fulfillment of divine prophecy. I am not educated, nor am I an expert in any particular field -- but I am sincere, and my sincerity is my credentials.