Power Politics Quotes

Power Politics Quote of the day

Whoever can conquer the street will one day conquer the state, for every form of power politics and any dictatorship-run state has its roots in the street.

Power will be maintained by the groovy guy or gal who gets the most media coverage for his sleaze. Naturally, his friends in various businesses will do okay, too.

Politics is not about power. Politics is not about money. Politics is not about winning for the sake of winning. Politics is about the improvement of people's lives.

We think of politics in terms of power and who has the power. Politics is the end to which that power is put.

If those to whom power is delegated do well, they will be respected; if not, they will be despised.

Power politics is the diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law nor even the military are in a position to define or control risks rationally.

Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men most.

Any creed whose basic doctrines do not include respect for the creeds of others, is simply power politics masquerading as philosophy.

Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.

There is no power without justice.

Power naturally and necessarily follows property.

Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.

Politics is the art of acquiring, holding, and wielding power.

We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every ten minutes.

I like power and I like to use it.

If we were to place our power at the service of our imaginations rather than our primate politics we would create a civilization worthy of the name.

We know the Chinese have revealed millions of background information on millions of people in the United States, and these, I suppose, ultimately are part of international big-power politics.

I had always been fascinated by the bizarre world of cards. It was a world of pure power politics where rewards and punishments were meted out immediately.

Cynics who say power is all that counts in politics forget that power without ideas is just improvisation.

He loves power. He loves control because others, you know, dad and stuff like that, but he's just a great guy. He's just a great guy.

Politics is ugly. Never doubt what small men will do for great power.

Until philosophers hold power, neither states nor individuals will have rest from trouble.

Either faith in Christ can cleanse all people of their sin, or none, but not some... The truth of Christ's death, resurrection and power over sin is absolute.

Being a soldier [in the wars of modern power politics] was like being on a team in a sport that drew no crowds, except for the players' own parents and friends.

Quite obviously power will continue to play a central role in global politics as it always does. But usually there is something else.

If you are my food, how am I supposed to feel pity towards you? That would mean starvation for me. “A hungry leopard told a fallen, panting, imploring gazelle

True power lies not in the spotlight, but in the influential shadows.

I think this business of good vs. evil is of no interest to the power hungry

The way of the world isn't the strong devouring the weak, but the weak deceiving and poisoning and whispering in the ears of the strong until they become weak, too.

Hesitation creates gaps. Boldness obliterates them.

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