Power Quotes - page 13

The accursed power which stands on Privilege (And goes with Women, and Champagne, and Bridge) Broke - and Democracy resumed her reign (Which goes with Bridge, and Women and Champagne). (Hilaire Belloc)
A society becomes totalitarian when its structure becomes flagrantly artificial: that is, when its ruling class has lost its function but succeeds in clinging to power by force or fraud. View quote
George Orwell
Power is not a means; it is an end. View quote
George Orwell
Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. View quote
George Orwell
Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. View quote
George Orwell
The secret of rulership is to combine a belief in one's own infallibility with a power to learn from past mistakes. View quote
George Orwell
What I am going to write is the last of what I have to say. I will say that literature is the only consciousness we possess and that its role as consciousness must inform us of our ability to comprehend the hideous danger of nuclear power. View quote
John Cheever
Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power. View quote
Bertrand Russell
Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it. View quote
Woodrow Wilson
Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation. View quote
Woodrow Wilson
Whatever my aims and agendas were, I never asked for power. (Benazir Bhutto)
Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty. View quote
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already. We have the power to imagine better. View quote
J. K. Rowling
All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State. View quote
Albert Camus
The paradox of communism in power was that it was conservative. View quote
Eric Hobsbawm
There is nothing so eternally adhesive as the memory of power. View quote
Isaac Asimov
He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them. View quote
Charles Kingsley
Thou art coming to a King, large petitions with thee bring, for His grace and power are such none can ever ask too much. View quote
John Newton
You cannot possibly have a broader basis for any government than that which includes all the people, with all their rights in their hands, and with an equal power to maintain their rights. View quote
William Lloyd Garrison
We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen. View quote
Calvin Coolidge
Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even. (Muhammad Ali)
People who live in the post-totalitarian system know only too well that the question of whether one or several political parties are in power, and how these parties define and label themselves, is of far less importance than the question of whether or not it is possible to live like a human being. View quote
Václav Havel
A state that denies its citizens their basic rights becomes a danger to its neighbors as well internal arbitrary rule will be reflected in arbitrary external relations. The suppression of public opinion, the abolition of public competition for power and its public exercise opens the way for the state power to arm itself in any way it sees fit. A state that does not hesitate to lie to its own people will not hesitate to lie to other states. View quote
Václav Havel
The power of doing anything with quickness is always prized much by the possessor, and often without any attention to the imperfection of the performance. View quote
Jane Austen
What is called music today is all too often only a disguise for the monologue of power. However, and this is the supreme irony of it all, never before have musicians tried so hard to communicate with their audience, and never before has that communication been so deceiving. Music now seems hardly more than a somewhat clumsy excuse for the self-glorification of musicians and the growth of a new industrial sector. View quote
Jacques Attali