All politics is a struggle for power; the ultimate kind of…

International politics, like all politics, is a struggle for power.

— Anonymous

Politics are always a struggle for power, disguised and modified by prudence, reason and moral pretext.

— William Hurrell Mallock

Modern politics is, at bottom, a struggle not of men but of forces.

— Henry Adams

American politics is a struggle, not of men but of forces. The men become every year more and more creatures of force, massed about…

— Henry Adams

Modern politics is, at bottom, a struggle not of men but of forces. The men become every year more and more creatures of force,…

— Henry Adams

“For knowledge of death makes us wish to extend our lives at the expense of others. And this is the root of the struggle…

— Saul Bellow

Under the interlocking regimes of neoliberal power, violence appears so arbitrary and thoughtless that it lacks the need for any justification, let alone claims…

— Henry Giroux

He who achieves power by violence does not truly become lord or master.

— Thomas Aquinas

the fateful equating of power with violence, of the political with government, and of government with a necessary evil has begun.

— Hannah Arendt

“Again, where the people are absolute rulers of the land, they rejoice in having the openness and exuberance of youth, while a tyrant counts…

— Euripides

Power is violence, its promise, its deed. Power cares nothing for reason, nothing for justice, nothing for compassion. It is, in fact, the singular…

— Steven Erikson

Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to…

— Hannah Arendt

It's the suppression of the word that gives it the power, the violence, the viciousness.

— Lenny Bruce

What people do for the struggle of power is madness

— Anonymous

Every revolution, bloody or not, has two phases. The first phase is defined by the struggle for freedom, the second by the struggle for…

— Adam Michnik