Every one more or less loves Power yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.
We should keep silent about those in power to speak well of them almost implies flattery to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous and when they are dead is cowardly.
Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.
I used to wish there was a useful term for those of us who thought American power should be used to remove psychopathic dictators.
I'm sure we the American people are the butt of jokes by those in power.
There are two kinds of women those who want power in the world and those who want power in bed.
Heroes are those who can somehow resist the power of the situation and act out of noble motives or behave in ways that do not demean others when they easily can.
Hateful is the power and pitiable is the life of those who wish to be feared rather than loved.
Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true but they can also lie and make their lies come true.
If those in charge of our society - politicians corporate executives and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves.
The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
There will be no end to the troubles of states or of humanity itself till philosophers become kings in this world or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.
Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows must renounce intellectual pride the omnipotence of clear thinking belief in the absolute power of logic.
Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.
Capitalism works better from every perspective when the economic decision makers are forced to share power with those who will be affected by those decisions.
The value systems of those with access to power and of those far removed from such access cannot be the same. The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged.
Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters one thing to be able to dare!
No I was never one of those positive people who believes he can have whatever he sets his sights on. I just kept working at it.
I appreciate the 'Surreal Life.' I had a really positive experience on that show and with those people. I found some love in my heart for religion again and had the support of a new family of friends. I wouldn't have had the pleasure of meeting those people if we were not all placed in that fishbowl.
Well I think the president is going to do well in terms of his influence for positive change here in the Congress making sure that we don't overspend making sure that we spend for only those programs that are justified.
Television is much better crafted today then in the 70s. The content is less positive but I'm one of those that feel our entertainment reflects our world it's not a driver - art imitates life.
Those churches have closed down or have been merged with a church that has a more positive vision.
It just happened that the course of the campaign went negative we actually went positive for a little over a week and you do the tracking of poll numbers and it hurt us. So the public responded to those type of ads.
He that raises a large family does indeed while he lives to observe them stand a broader mark for sorrow but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.