Top 100 In Power Quotes
#1. One of the bitter ironies of the 20th century was that communism, which began as an egalitarian doctrine accusing capitalism of selfishness and calloused sacrifices of others, became in power a system whose selfishness and callousness toward others made the sins of capitalism pale.
Thomas Sowell
#3. But I have noticed this about ambitious men, or men in power, that they fear even the slightest and least likely threat to it.
Mary Stewart
#4. Each party profited by the offices when in power," Roosevelt explained, "and when in opposition each party insincerely denounced its opponents for doing exactly what it itself had done and intended again to do.
Doris Kearns Goodwin
#5. I don't think that people in power can be convinced by words or articles. They will never give it up by choice.
Nawal El Saadawi
#6. Every campaign, Garry Wills once wrote, "taught Nixon the same lesson: mobilize resentment against those in power." History taught the same to many conservative and reactionary populist movements, whose real attitude to those in power and authority was one of a servile, envious, vicarious adoration.
Christopher Hitchens
#7. Development cannot really be so centered only on those in power.
Amartya Sen
#8. During the years that both Stalin and Hitler were in power, more people were killed in Ukraine than anywhere else in the bloodlands, or in Europe, or in the world.
Timothy Snyder
#9. Lofty talk about 'social justice' or 'fairness' boils down to greatly expanded powers for politicians, since those pretty words have no concrete definition. They are a blank check for creating disparities in power that dwarf disparities in income - and are far more dangerous.
Thomas Sowell
#10. Those who are leftists, once in power, are not different from other parties.
Ahmed Ben Bella
#11. [Vladimir] Putin wants to keep [Bashar] Assad in power and expand his own military base in Syria, whatever the cost. I even believe he has an interest in more and more people fleeing the country. The flow of refugees improves his negotiating position toward the West, including the German chancellor.
Garry Kasparov
#12. Honey, de white man is de ruler of everything as fur as Ah been able tuh find out. Maybe it's some place way off in de ocean where de black man is in power, but we don't know nothin' but what we see.
Zora Neale Hurston
#13. But always they featured things we believed were wrong in the sight of God. Stealing, lying, murder. Was this what God wanted in times like these? How should a Christian act when evil was in power?
Corrie Ten Boom
#14. The people who attacked Mr. Paul are much more concerned with staying in power than they are with protecting my family and yours.
Thomas E. Woods Jr.
#15. However much I have frequented the mystics, deep down I have always sided with the Devil; unable to equal him in power, I have tried to be worthy of him, at least, in insolence, acrimony, arbitrariness, and caprice.
Emil Cioran
#16. humility is one of the chief and the highest graces; one of the most difficult of attainment; one to which our first and chiefest efforts ought to be directed; one that only comes in power, when the fullness of the Spirit makes us partakers of the indwelling Christ, and He lives within us. Second,
Andrew Murray
#17. About this time two new propositions entered Fat's mind, due to this particular conversation. 1) Some of those in power are insane. 2) And they are right.
Anonymous
#18. I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of the time.
Sally Quinn
#19. Fascism in power is the open, terroristic dictatorship of the most reactionary, the most chauvinistic, the most imperialistic elements of finance capitalism.
Karl Marx
#20. I am not so interested in religion or dogma of any kind. It is too restrictive for me, too organizational, too hierarchical, and too tied up in power and being right. You call it a "rabid evangelism."
Terry Tempest Williams
#21. Democracy without women in power is not democracy at all.
Marie C. Wilson
#22. The moment we recognize God as supreme in power and infinitely good and loving toward all His intelligent creatures, that moment we admit the doctrine of universal and special providence.
J.G. Holland
#23. No state, no government exists. What does in fact exist is a man, or a few men, in power over many men.
Rose Wilder Lane
#24. And if all the trees on earth were pens and the ocean [were ink], with seven
oceans behind it to add to its [supply], yet would not the words of Allah be
exhausted [in the writing]: for Allah is Exalted in Power, full of Wisdom.
Anonymous
#25. The kingdom of God does not consist in talk, but in power, that is, in works and practice. God loves the 'doers of the word' in faith and love, and not the 'mere hearers,' who, like parrots, have learned to utter certain expressions with readiness.
Martin Luther
#27. When grand plans for scientific and defence technologies are made, do the people in power think about the sacrifices the people in the laboratories and fields have to make?
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
#28. You don't have to wait till your party's in power to have an impact on life at home and around the world.
William J. Clinton
#29. Freedom does not die from frontal attack. It dies because men in power no longer believe in a system based upon liberty.
Herbert Hoover
#30. We are in a period when old questions are settled and the new are not yet brought forward. Extreme party action, if continued in such a time, would ruin the party. Moderation is its only chance. The party out of power gains by all partisan conduct of those in power.
Rutherford B. Hayes
#31. In Bombay, we have a fine concert hall. I think it is high time we built venues in Delhi and Calcutta, not only for western music, but also Indian music. It doesn't matter which party is in power; don't you think the capital of India should have a concert hall?
Zubin Mehta
#32. There is an awesome God of justice who is ready to move in power if you move in obedience,
Gary Haugen
#33. The classic rule of thumb is that if you are an intellectual ideological magazine, you do better in opposition than you do if your views are reflected by people in power.
John Podhoretz
#34. When I'm in power, here's how I'm gonna put the country back on its feet. I'm going to put sterilizing agents in the following products: Sunny Delight, Mountain Dew, and Thick-Crust Pizza. Only the 'tardiest of the 'tards like the thick crust.
Adam Carolla
#35. I realized that I had traveled to Havana during what now seems like the childhood of the Cuban Revolution, if you think that Fidel has now been in power for 44 extremely long years. I started looking at the revolution as history, and not as part of the daily news.
Alma Guillermoprieto
#36. The great divide in American foreign policy thinking is between those who believe in paper and those who believe in power.
Charles Krauthammer
#37. Our politics, economics, advertising, and religions (New Age and Old) are awash in credulity. Those who have something to sell, those who wish to influence public opinion, those in power, a skeptic might suggest, have a vested interest in discouraging skepticism,
Carl Sagan
#38. The sense of immunity felt by a particular group currently in power is bound to be illusory. That is made clear when we look at how partisan affiliation shapes people's sense of the dangers of state surveillance. What emerges is that yesterday's cheerleaders can quickly become today's dissenters.
Anonymous
#39. A man in power, once becoming obnoxious, his acts, good or bad, will work out his ruin.
Tacitus
#40. God must have loved the People in Power, for he made them so very like their own image of him.
Kenneth Patchen
#41. Elections determine who is in power, but they do not determine how power is used.
Paul Collier
#42. Had the decision belonged to Senator Kerry, Saddam hussein would still be in power today in Iraq. In fact, Saddam Hussein would almost certainly still be in control of Kuwait.
Dick Cheney
#43. Putin can't afford to leave the office because he will be in real danger of being prosecuted for things he and his people did during their stay in power.
Garry Kasparov
#44. One must obey the man whom the city sets up in power in small things and in justice and in its opposite.
Sophocles
#45. Right, wrong - those are words thrown around by those what is in power in order to sit on the backs of those what ain't.
Peter David
#46. It can often seem that those in power don't want us to enjoy making things for ourselves - they'd prefer to establish a cultural hierarchy that devalues our amateur efforts and encourages consumption rather than creation.
David Byrne
#47. When you complain, you make yourself a victim. When you speak out, you are in power.
Eckhart Tolle
#48. Politics is the art of making the people believe that they are in power, when in fact, they have none.
Mumia Abu-Jamal
#49. What we now have as a government is a god, built by our mortal hands and, yet, externally variant in power, always requiring our prayers, pity and appeals in order to fulfill its supposed purposes.
Tony Osborg
#50. Racism remains in the eyes of history ... merely another instance of the persecution of minorities for the advantage of those in power.
Ruth Benedict
#51. Now everybody's bloggin'. I heard somebody say, "Blogging is just graffiti with punctuation." Everyone's an authority so there's nobody in power, 'cause everyone thinks they're in power.
Ice-T
#52. Firstly, the current government officials are in power for their currency, but I'm informing you for your new currency.
Jared Lee Loughner
#53. It is a common happening that those in power, as their tenure of office continues, find themselves less and less able to contemplate relinquishing it.
Anthony Eden
#54. I grew up thinking anything was possible simply because of seeing women in power - like, you know, running the country. Which is a thought that continues to give Americans indigestion ... Direction is about having a vision, but the practice of being a director is a con game - a confidence game.
Mira Nair
#55. 1872 the anarchist leader Mikhail Bakunin warned Karl Marx that Communists in power would be as oppressive as the aristocracy they replaced. After what has happened in Russia, can you honestly say Bakunin was wrong?
Ken Follett
#56. There is no one in al-Nahda that is 'violence is a means of change or to keep power.' Everyone in al-Nahda believes that democracy is the only way to reach power and to stay in power.
Rashid Al-Ghannushi
#57. Instead, so long as Kennedy lived and Khrushchev stayed in power, there was steady movement toward the relaxation of tension - the American University speech, the Limited Test Ban Treaty, the establishment of the "hotline" between the White House and the Kremlin.
Robert F. Kennedy
#59. Men who use terrorism as a means to power, rule by terror once they are in power.
Helen Clark MacInnes
#60. Decisions were often made because of ideology and politics. As a result many wrong-headed actions were taken, ones that did not solve the problem at hand but that fit with the interests or beliefs of the people in power.
Joseph E. Stiglitz
#61. The King plays a most important part in the endgame, and gains in power and activity as the number of pieces on the board diminishes. Acting in eight different directions, he becomes, instead of the weakest piece, one of the most formidable units.
Eugene Znosko-Borovsky
#62. Sarah Palin is an empty vessel ready to be filled by ideology that she doesn't even understand, and that is really scary. Nothing is more frightening than an empty vessel in power.
Chris Matthews
#63. The world isn't fair? What a huge revelation! Some people in power abuse those they have power over? Amazing! When did this start happening?
Brandon Sanderson
#64. I was far from understanding that the capacity of men interested in power is not necessarily expressed in the brilliance of their conversation.
Anthony Powell
#65. When you're younger, you see the people who are in power and think they must have that position because of some degree of skill. And as you get older, you realize it's not true, that most people in those positions are absolutely inept. And this naturally makes you feel better about yourself.
Morrissey
#66. When you have a person in power who punishes people for speaking their mind, it's truly dangerous.
Tim Robbins
#67. There is no trick of a magician or spell of a witch doctor, no drug or mesmerism or bribery or torture or coercion that can compare in power with the force for change unleashed in the human breast through the touch of love.
Mike Mason
#68. It's not about supplication, it's about power. It's not about asking, it's about demanding. It's not about convincing those who are currently in power, it's about changing the very face of power itself.
Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
#69. History isn't all fact
it's just the story the victors tell to keep themselves in power. And it's been a slow revision. The more time passes, the easier it becomes to reinvent the past.
Heather Anastasiu
#70. The same Power that brought the slave out of bondage will, in His own good time and way, bring about the emancipation of women, and make her the equal in power and dominion that she was in the beginning.
Amelia Bloomer
#71. Those in power write the history while those who suffer write the songs.
Frank Harte
#72. This is an exercise in power - the power of mind over matter. If you don't mind being inadequate, it doesn't matter.
Robert Fulghum
#73. Give men your ear, but not your heart. Show respect for those in power, but don't follow them blindly. Judge with logic and reason, but comment not.
Christopher Paolini
#74. There is no failure unless you quit. Only success not yet won.
~Haghuf, in Power of the Dance
Jaq D. Hawkins
#75. We on the left have forgotten that the question is not how do you get good people to rule, most people who rule are mediocre at best and usually venal. The question is how do we make those in power frightened of us and not be seduced by formal political processes.
Chris Hedges
#76. Winter, the aged chief, Mighty in power, Exiles the tender leaf, Exiles the flower.
Robert Fuller Murray
#77. Odd how often blood is shed to obtain freedom from those in power. Oppressors must be the most insecure people in the world.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#78. As we get used to women in power, we are likely to discover that they behave much like powerful men - vain, entitled, always looking for more.
Hanna Rosin
#79. I have plumbed the depth of human cowardice and I realized that there is only one way to be right, and that is to be in power.
Georges Bidault
#80. Out of power, Marxism can develop critical intelligence; in power, it quickly becomes stupid.
Mason Cooley
#81. We love and live in power; it is the spirit's end. Mind must subdue; to conquer is its life.
Philip James Bailey
#82. The paradox of communism in power was that it was conservative.
Eric Hobsbawm
#84. Dreamers do not believe in power, they believe in imagination the source of creativity.
Euginia Herlihy
#85. Now somebody will ask me, Pete, how can you prove these songs really make a difference? And I have to confess I can't prove a darn thing, except that the people in power must think they do something, because they keep the songs off the air.
Pete Seeger
#86. There are people whose souls have just withered, people who are willing to go along with anything evil - anything so as not to be suspected of disagreeing with whoever is in power.
Vasily Grossman
#87. Our premise is that inclusion leads to growth. So for those who are locked out, they lose development, and those who are in power lose market and growth.
Jesse Jackson
#88. Laws decide wich forms of oppression are allowed, Lord. And because of that, those laws are servants to those in power, for whom oppression is given as a right over those who have little or no power.
Steven Erikson
#89. We're the Fascist States of America today, not the United States of America, because the corporations are in power.
Jesse Ventura
#90. I will interview bigwigs if I get the chance, but you are seldom surprised by people in power - you've got to get awfully damn close to get anything new.
Joe Sacco
#91. It is an unwavering rule for those in power that, when it comes to heads, it is best to cut them off before they start thinking, afterwards, it might be too late.
Jose Saramago
#93. You have to be very rich to afford Labour, with 66 tax rises since they came in power.
John Redwood
#95. Well I think all I would say on that is, when we were in opposition in Britain and Hawke and then Keating were in power here, Labor was in power here, we learnt a huge amount from the ALP's experience here.
Patricia Hewitt
#96. Whenever you have people in power, they try to control people. It's not necessarily a bad thing to control people - you can control people for good, you can control people for bad, but you're gonna try and control people.
Vince Staples
#97. How can wealth persuade poverty to use its political freedom to keep wealth in power? Here lies the whole art of Conservative politics.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#98. Most governments strive to keep the masses from thinking; if the masses began to think the government would not be in power - rjs
Rassool Jibraeel Snyman
#99. I have a suspicion the blacks model themselves on the whites now that they're in power. 'Don't you know who we are, man?'
Guy Scott
#100. Powerful people never educate powerless people in what they need that they can use to take the power away from powerful people; it's too much to expect. If I was in power, I would not educate people in how to take my powers away.
Dr. John
