Power Quotes

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

"Power is not found in the state alone but in the complex of social relations."

"Hegemony is never simply imposed; it is constantly negotiated and contested."

"The Panopticon is a new mode of obtaining power of mind over mind."

"The more powerful the state, the more powerless will be the people."

"The greater the power of a state, the more will it be influenced by dynasties and potentates."

"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."

"Power is not something that is acquired, compromised, or transferred; it is exercised from innumerable points in the interplay of nonegalitarian relations."

"The modern world has solved the problem of restraint by making constraint desirable and pleasure productive."

"A government must be strong enough to protect its people, yet wise enough to know when not to use that strength."

"The cause of the people is in the hands of the people themselves."

"Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men."

"Great things are effected by powerful means."

"Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called."

"Ambition can creep as well as soar."

"Real power is achieved when the point of honesty is crossed."

"The highest degree of renown fills the mind with pangs unacknowledged before."

"The private citizen has everything to fear from the man in power, and nothing to hope."

"The measure of a man's greatness is what he does with power."

"The only true power is the power to make people happy."

"The great questions of the day will not be decided by speeches and majority decisions, but by iron and blood."

"The pursuit of power corrupts even the most virtuous."

"A woman's true power lies in her influence over the hearts of those around her."

"The love of power is the demon of mankind, and it must be strictly limited."

"True power lies not in force, but in the ability to persuade."

"All the world over, I will back the masses against the classes."

"Nothing is more powerful than the mind of a free people united in a just cause."

"The world is governed not by its laws but by the will of the people who inhabit it."

"I have always found that the masses are easily managed through their passions."

"He who controls the past controls the future."