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Politics Power quotes, quotations, 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.
William Morris Hughes
 1010    
Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.
Elie Wiesel
 1006    
Be fully in the moment,open yourself to the powerful energies dancing around you.
Ernest Hemingway
 1005    
Hearing often-times the still, sad music of humanity, nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power to chasten and subdue.
William Wordsworth
 1005    
Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces obstinacy, it sharpens the sense of alienation and strengthens the power of resistance.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
 1005    
You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes.
George Bernard Shaw
 1005    
Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.
attributed to Albert Einstein
 1005    
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.
Plutarch
 1005    
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.
George Orwell
 1005    
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.
Vaclav Havel
 1005    
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.
Og Mandino
 1005    
Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him.
Charles De Gaulle
 1005    
Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
Charles De Gaulle
 1005    
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.
Primo Levi
 1005    
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.
Herbert Clark Hoover
 1005    
In order to become the master the politician poses as the servant.
Charles De Gaulle
 1005    
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
Charles De Gaulle
 1005    
Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.
Mahatma Gandhi
 1005    
Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.
Lincoln Steffens
 1004    
Power is what men seek, and any group that gets it will abuse it. It is the same story.
Lincoln Steffens
 1004    
We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician.
Felix Frankfurter
 1004    
Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid.
Ronal Reagan, 20 March 1981
 1004    
In war you can be killed only once. In politics, many times.
Winston Churchill
 1004    
When you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite.
Winston Churchill, On formal declarations of war
 1004    
Every instance of heartbreak can teach us powerful lessons about creating the kind of love we really want.
Martha Beck, O Magazine, February
 1004    
It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.
Winston Churchill
 1004    
His super power is to turn into a scotch terrier.
 1004    
Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.
Russell Baker
 1004    
Your fortune stateth: Do not overtax your powers.
 1004    
Politics is far more complicated than physics.
Albert Einstein
 1004    
Your fortune stateth: You have the power to influence all with whom you come in contact.
 1004    
One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire.
John W. Foster
 1004    
Help people become more motivated by guiding them to the source of their own power.
Paul G. Thomas
 1004    
The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.
Noam Chomsky
 1004    
In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country of the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.
Charles De Gaulle
 1004    
If school results were the key to power, girls would be running the world.
Sarah Boseley
 1004    
When a girl ceases to blush, she has lost the most powerful charm of her beauty.
St. Gregory The Great
 1004    
When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers.
Walter Lippmann
 1004    
Politics is largely a matter of heart.
R. A. Butler
 1004    
He's just a politician trying to save both his faces ...
 1004    
The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.
Reinhold Niebuhr
 1004    
Politeness is half good manners and half good lying.
Mary Wilson Little
 1004    
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.
Ronald Reagan
 1004    
The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind -- not the fiend or the sadist.
Erich Fromm
 1004    
A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.
Ralph Lauren
 1004    
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.
George Sheehan
 1004    
No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.
Johann Friedrich Von Schiller
 1004    
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.
Theodore Roszak
 1004    
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.
Anthony Brandt
 1004    
The saddest life is that of a political aspirant under democracy. His failure is ignominious and his success is disgraceful.
Mary Catherine Bateson
 1004    


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