Quotes about Power

As a teacher of Greek I gave the intellectual man weapons against the common man. I now want to give the common man weapons against the intellectual man

Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.

Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.

The man who listens to Reason is lost reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to master her.

The only cure for so much misfortune is love. It's not the force of gravity that keeps the universe in balance, but the binding power of love.

No one gives you anything in life, Teresa would say, you have to take it by force, and as soon as you get careless they'll take it back.

To serve an ambassador who was despotic toward his subordinates and servile toward those of a higher social rank.

The Indians' insistence on clinging to their customs had to be the work of Satan there was no other explanation which is why the friars went out to hunt down and lasso the deserters and then whipped their doctrine of love and forgiveness into them.

It was an election year and there was reason for concern over the turn of events. The country was waking up. The wave of discontent that was stirring the people was beginning to strike at the heart of that oligarchic society.

Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them," wrote Margaret Atwood.

They made you believe you had power; they hammered at your brain over the barracks loudspeakers; they commanded you in the name of your country; and they gave you your share of guilt so you could not wash your hands of it but would be forever bound by ties of blood.