Quotes, Quotations and Sayings

Without the Empire we should be tossed like a cork in the cross current of world politics. It is at once our sword and our shield.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

Be fully in the moment,open yourself to the powerful energies dancing around you.

Hearing often-times the still, sad music of humanity, nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power to chasten and subdue.

Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces obstinacy, it sharpens the sense of alienation and strengthens the power of resistance.

You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes.

Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.

To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle (home life, and perhaps the trade unions or local politics) he feels himself master of his fate, but against major events he is as helpless as against the elements. So far from endeavoring to influence the future, he simply lies down and lets things happen to him.

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.

The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish good results while the strongest, by dispersing his effort over many chores, may fail to accomplish anything. Drops of water, by continually falling, hone their passage through the hardest of rocks but the hasty torrent rushes over it with hideous uproar and leaves no trace behind.

Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him.

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

A country is considered the more civilized the more the wisdom and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man from becoming too weak or a powerful one too powerful.

Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a world-wide depression all by myself.

In order to become the master the politician poses as the servant.

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.

Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.

Power is what men seek, and any group that gets it will abuse it. It is the same story.

We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician.

Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid.

In war you can be killed only once. In politics, many times.

When you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite.

Every instance of heartbreak can teach us powerful lessons about creating the kind of love we really want.

It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.

His super power is to turn into a scotch terrier.

Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.

Your fortune stateth: Do not overtax your powers.

Politics is far more complicated than physics.

Your fortune stateth: You have the power to influence all with whom you come in contact.

One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire.

Help people become more motivated by guiding them to the source of their own power.

The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.

In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country of the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.

If school results were the key to power, girls would be running the world.

When a girl ceases to blush, she has lost the most powerful charm of her beauty.

When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers.

Politics is largely a matter of heart.

He's just a politician trying to save both his faces ...

The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.

Politeness is half good manners and half good lying.

Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close.

The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind -- not the fiend or the sadist.

A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.

We may think there is willpower involved, but more likely? change is due to want power. Wanting the new addiction more than the old one. Wanting the new me in preference to the person I am now.

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

To bemoan the messiness of politics is not just a folly it betrays a dangerous impatience with basic realities. It is like becoming disturbed that people do not fall in love sensibly -- and so deciding to computerize the problem.

The most powerful ties are the ones to the people who gave us birth ... it hardly seems to matter how many years have passed, how many betrayals there may have been, how much misery in the family We remain connected, even against our wills.

The saddest life is that of a political aspirant under democracy. His failure is ignominious and his success is disgraceful.