Quotes about Power

The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed.

Gulf Lesson One is the value of airpower.

I was Satan's right hand man.

Among this pool are these: (a) explanatory power, (b) explanatory scope, (c) plausibility, (d) degree of ad hoc-ness and (e) conformity with other beliefs. The more explanatory power and scope and the more plausibility and conformity with other beliefs an explanation has, the better it is. The less ad hoc (adjusted, contrived, artificial) the explanation, the better as well. The trick is to subject all explanation options to these criteria.

Don't think you can frighten me by telling me that I am alone. France is alone. God is alone. And the loneliness of God is His strength.

Wicked people means people who have no love: therefore, they have no shame. They have the power to ask love because the don't need it: they have the power to offer it because they have none to give.

The ultimate form of censorship is assassination.

Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done

The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.

When a man says money can do anything that settles it: he hasn't got any. When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

When you go to women," says Nietzsche, "take your whip with you.

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