5,584 Quotes About Power

Politics is the name we give to the orchestration of power in any society.

People who know their worth understand the power of their own words.

Dogma in power does have a unique chilling ingredient not exhibited by power, however ghastly, wielded for its own traditional sake.

The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading subjugation on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it: for man is an imitative animal.

The power of words is in the works of words. People are much more bonded by the works of words than words. The work of words is the trigger of words.

... A state is a human community that (successfully) claims the monopolyof the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory.

Men don't rape women because their women are ugly," cousin Jostien said, but there was a protest at his words. "That's what my fa said! He says that inside their hearts and spirits they are nothing but little men who need to feel powerful.

In every community there is a class of people profoundly dangerous to the rest. I don't mean the criminals. For them we have punitive sanctions. I mean the leaders. Invariably the most dangerous people seek the power. While in the parlors of indignation the right-thinking citizen brings his heart to a boil. (p. 51)

There is no such things as magic, though there is such a thing as knowledge of the hidden ways of Nature.