Power And Politics Quotes
Collection of top 70 famous quotes about Power And Politics
Power And Politics Quotes & Sayings
Happy to read and share the best inspirational Power And Politics quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.
France has never gotten over the fact that it was once a great power and is now just a great nuisance.
— Thomas Sowell
I think there are two ways in which people are controlled. First of all frighten people and secondly, demoralise them.
— Tony Benn
The council is a place where everyone schemes against everyone else, and people talk incessantly about Power with a capital "Pow".
— James Alan Gardner
Pure politics is merely the calculus of combinations and of chances.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Deception and privileged secrets are common facets of politics.
— Wayne Gerard Trotman
Error indeed has often prevailed by the assistance of power or force. Truth is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error.
— Thomas Jefferson
The power of a corrupt government is located in the ignorance and indifference of its people - rjs
— Rassool Jibraeel Snyman
The bizarre world of cards is a world of pure power politics where rewards and punishments are meted out immediately.
— Ely Culbertson
Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
— Fareed Zakaria
Politics is the art of acquiring, holding, and wielding power.
— Indira Gandhi
I grew up in that world of power and politics in Washington, but when you grow up around it, you are completely unfazed by it.
— Alexandra Wentworth
Power in politics, sovereignty in America is with we the people, and that is the path to turning this country around: empowering the people.
— Ted Cruz
Behind every act in Israel's identity politics stretches, like a long black shadow, the idea of an eternal power and race.
— Shlomo Sand
The United Staes had never in its history intervened to stop genocide and had in fact rarely even made a point of condemning it as it occurred,
— Samantha Power
Violence is the power of the state; imagination and non-violence the power of civil society.
— Rebecca Solnit
Wealth aggregates and becomes political power. Simple as that. 'Corporation' is just the most recent name for it.
— Daniel Suarez
Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.
— Benjamin Disraeli
One rash person in the right place and earth could be a sterile cinder in seconds, but that's been more-or-less true for a century.
— Joe Haldeman
I have witnessed how the power of listening, storytelling and embracing gray areas breaks through the rigid 'us vs. them.
— Aspen Baker
When the day to day life is suppressing you, how could you put your moral values and will power to the realm of life?
— Nilantha Ilangamuwa
Humans, werewolves, or, apparently, vampire, it doesn't matter; get more than three of them together and the jockeying for power begins.
— Patricia Briggs
The kind of president we need has little to do with ideology and more to do with a willingness to wield power to moral ends.
— George Friedman
One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are.
— Cal Thomas
Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
— Aristotle.
I begin to find an idle and fond bondage in the oppression of aged tyranny, who sways, not as it hath power, but as it is suffered.
— William Shakespeare
Knowledge is power. The moment the masses acquire this power, control fades. And when control fades, chaos erupts.
— Felix O. Hartmann
Politics are always a struggle for power, disguised and modified by prudence, reason and moral pretext.
— William Hurrell Mallock
I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Power and privilege assigns to those without it the task of paying for its excesses
— William Hageman
"Freedom" in capitalist countries exists only for those who possess money and who consequently hold power.
— Nikita Khrushchev
Second, and in the same breath, constitutions seek to discipline politics and to limit government power.
— Michael S. Greve
Politics gives guys so much power that they tend to behave badly around women. And I hope I never get into that.
— William J. Clinton
To be frank, politics is about wanting power, getting it, exercising it, and keeping it.
— Jean Chretien
The crisis that we inherit when we come to power will be the occasion for fundamental change and not the excuse for postponing it
— Tony Benn
Power, in a nutshell, is the ability to get things done, and politics is the ability to decide which things need to be done.
— Zygmunt Bauman
Politics is the attempt to achieve power and prestige without merit.
— P. J. O'Rourke
Cryptography shifts the balance of power from those with a monopoly on violence to those who comprehend mathematics and security design.
— Jacob Appelbaum
Politics is the art of achieving prestige and power without merit.
— P. J. O'Rourke
In democracy, our most important tool is to vote. But our power tool is when we have the power to influence others on who to vote for.
— Ben Tolosa
Let him leave the imperial court, who wishes to be virtuous. Virtue and absolute power cannot coexist.
— Lucan
The accession to power in Pyongyang of Kim Jong Un, son of Kim Jong Il and grandson of Kim Il Sung, is a unique achievement in world politics.
— Elliott Abrams
Power naturally and necessarily follows property.
— Daniel Webster
Women have more inner power for creation, starting from family and home and ending with professional activity and politics.
— Dalia Grybauskaite
The difference between a rebel and a patriot depends upon who is in power at the moment.
— Sidney Sheldon
Power is the ability to direct or privent the current or future actions of other groups and individuals.
— Moises Naim
A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.
— Fawn M. Brodie
Our hesitancy to take credit for our accomplishments results in a loss of power, influence, and political capital in the workplace.
— Bonnie Marcus
Everyone says "i will never" and "one should never" but, actually, "No one can Resist Miss-using Power (at-least ones) when they have it".
— Honeya
The individual cannot bargain with the State. The State recognizes no coinage but power: and it issues the coins itself.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
So it is that a new politics centers around the arousal of that power, using prayer and meditation to create a force field of transformation.
— Marianne Williamson
Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
Violence as a way of gaining power ... is being camouflaged under the guise of tradition, national honor [and] national security ...
— Alfred Adler
Nobody would think of asking the U.N. General Assembly what it thinks because it is dominated by nations with no power and less legitimacy
— Dick Morris
Then Brezhnev grabbed the wheel of power and captained the country with the exploratory heart of a municipal bus driver.
— Anthony Marra
I was a political journalist; I came to writing novels through an interest in politics and power.
— Robert Harris
Justice makes the life of such as are in prosperity, power and authority the life of a god, and injustice turns it to that of a beast.
— Plutarch
What better way for a ruling class to claim and hold power than to pose as the defenders of the nation.
— Christopher Hitchens
The modern State, whether in a totalitarian or a democratic country, has far too much power, and we are probably right to fear it.
— Anthony Burgess
Spiritual power and spiritual authority notoriously shade over into both politics and poetry.
— Harold Bloom