“If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.”
Power reveals character. These quotes explore authority, influence, control, and the recurring lesson of history that power is dangerous precisely because it feels so good to the person who has it.
“More than ever before, consumers have the ability to unify their voices and coalesce their buying power to influence corporate behaviors.”
“If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.”
“I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.'”
“Their final objective toward which all their deceit is directed is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection.”
“A word after a word after a word is power.”
“Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.”
“There's a lot more power in calm than in vituperation.”
“Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?”
“Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.”
“No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been.”
“The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.”
“War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.”
“Your real self - the 'I am I' - is master of this land, the ruler of this empire. You rightfully have power and dominion over it, all its inhabitants, and all contained in its realm.”
“When the Lord Chancellor violates the trust of his great office of state to solicit party donations from people whose careers he can control, and then says I'm not sorry, and I'd do it again no wonder the public think that power has gone to their heads.”
“Words, without power, is mere philosophy.”
“I've become invested with this symbolic power. It really does transcend what I'm actually doing and what I actually deserve.”