Quotes About Power

When we think we lead we most are led.

If you shoot at a king you must kill him.

From her character in the HBO miniseries: "The art of politics is the art of applying the seat of the britches to the seat of the chair.

A general is powerless without an army.An army is directionless without a general.To win battles a general and an army need each other.

It is a characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top.

The reward of a general is not a bigger tent - but command.

The slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown. He must dominate in his turn.

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

It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.

In Pierre Elliott Trudeau Canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination.

An army of stags led by a lion would be better than an army of lions led by a stag.

Dr. King's leadership reaffirmed the promise of our democracy: that everyday people, working together, have the power to change our government and our institutions for the better.

For children in their most impressionable years, there is, in fantasy, the highest of stimulating and educational powers.

The brain is a muscle that can move the world.

Power corrupts. Knowledge is power. Study hard. Be evil.

The fruit of liberal education is not learning, but the capacity and desire to learn, not knowledge, but power.

Learning to play with a big amplifier is like trying to control an elephant.

They'll be no learning period with nuclear weapons. Make one mistake and you're going to destroy nations.

The illusion holds power over you when you are not able to remember that you are a powerful spirit that has taken on the physical experience for the purpose of learning.

On technology: The teacher is mightier than the mouse.

Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.

Laws are always useful to those who possess and vexatious to those who have nothing.

If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.

Political corruption works by having an equally corrupt legal system to protect it.