Quotes About Power

Kral?na kar?? hakl? olan bir vekil, kocas?na kar?? hakl? olan bir kad?n, subay?na kar?? hakl? olan bir nefer; bunlar?n hepsi iki kat cezaya çarpt?r?lmaz m?? Zay?flar için hakl? olmak suçtur.

Ak?ll? olman için dua etmiyorum. Ak?ll? olursan akl?n? güçlülerin hizmetine verirsin. Talihli olman? istiyorum ki ak?ll? insanlar sana hizmet etsinler.

Heureusement que les monarques vont parfois trop loin, sinon ils ne tomberaient jamais" (dans Léon l'Africain)

Instead of cutting off a branch, I preferred to pull out the whole tree of tyranny by its roots in the hope that a different tree would spring up in its place.

When I find a trustworthy man, he lacks ambition and scorns the apparatus of power; and when a man appears ready to jump at the first office I offer him, his haste unnerves me.

C'est que l'Occident ne veut pas qu'on lui ressemble, il veut seulement qu'on lui obéisse.

dès lors que l'on a la technologie adéquate et un bon prétexte pour contrôler, on contrôlera.

C'est en cet instant de gloire que le raïs prononça l'arrêt de mort de l'Égypte cosmopolite et libérale.

celui de l'Iran. Churchill en personne s'est démené pour abattre le gouvernement du docteur Mossadegh

Après 1949, l'année des trois coups d'État, la démocratie n'a plus jamais réussi à s'imposer en Syrie.

Tell her that the qualities needed to govern are not those which are needed in order to accede to power.

XX. Yüzy?l bize hiçbir doktrinin mutlaka kendiliÄŸinden özgürlükçü olamayaca??n?, hepsinin, komünizmin, liberalizmin, milliyetçiliÄŸin, büyük dinlerden her birinin, hatta laikliÄŸin kontrolden ç?kabileceÄŸini, hepsinin yozlaÅŸabileceÄŸini, hepsinin elininin kana bulaÅŸt???n? öÄŸretmiÅŸ olacak.

the qualities needed to govern are not those which are needed in order to accede to power. In order to run things smoothly, one must forget oneself and only be interested in others – particularly the most unfortunate; to get into power, one must be the greediest of men, think only of oneself and be ready to crush one's closest friends.

Zaman müttefikimiz deÄŸil bizim, yarg?c?m?z.

Le drame, pour les Européens, c'est que dans le monde impitoyable qui est le nôtre, si l'on renonce à devenir une puissance musclée, on finit par se faire bousculer, et malmener, et rançonner. On ne devient pas un arbitre respecté, on devient une victime potentielle, et un futur otage.

Ce qui a eu pour effet d'accentuer fortement les inégalités sociales, au point de créer une petite caste d'hypermilliardaires, chacun d'eux plus riche que des nations entières.

People sometimes imagine that just because they have access to so many newspapers, radio and TV channels, they will get an infinity of different opinions. Then they discover that things are just the opposite: the power of these loudspeakers only amplifies the opinion prevalent at a certain time, to the point where it covers any other opinion.

Yet what use against the deceit of a state are the memories of a child?

Voltaire would mock the empire as "neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire,

The sole purpose of terms such as spirit and immortal soul was to allow unscrupulous and corrupt clergymen to frighten men and subject them to their will.

is a Civill Warr with the Pen, which pulls out the sorde soon afterwards.

There are black men who love the white man so dearly, who love, I must suppose, the nice warm feeling of shoe sole on their woolly heads, that they would do nothing to see that the white man relinquishes his stranglehold on the world.

A rich man told me recently that a liberal is a man who tells other people what to do with their money.

Photographers are the new Brahmins: we have no volition when they rule us.