Quotes about Power
Politics is a jungle-torn between doing the right thing and staying in office.
— John F. Kennedy
Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.
— Frank Herbert
Black people are victims of an enormous amount of violence. None of those things can take place without the complicity of the people who run the schools and the city.
— Toni Morrison
Politics is a deleterious profession, like some poisonous handicrafts.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Those that deem politics beneath their dignity are doomed to be governed by those of lesser talents.
— Aristotle
There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Politics: the art of appearing candid and completely open while concealing as much as possible.
— Frank Herbert
Government as well as religion has furnished its schisms, its persecutions and its devices for fattening idleness on the earnings of the people.
— Thomas Jefferson
There will never be a really free and enlightened state until the state comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived.
— Henry David Thoreau
Coersion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him.
— Ronald Reagan
Men who have greatness within them don't go in for politics.
— Albert Camus
Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
— Edmund Burke