Political power Quotes

“Political power grows out of the barrel of the gun...”

— Mao Tse-tung

Why, of course, the people don't want war.

— Hermann Goring

Legitimacy is the elixir of political power.

— Fareed Zakaria

“War is the currency of political power.”

— Abhijit Naskar

A cult is a religion with no political power.

— Tom Wolfe

Money, media, and political power are very closely connected.

— Alexander Stille

Wall Street has too much wealth and political power.

— Charlie Munger

I never had a political power base.

— Ariel Sharon

It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic power.

— Jose Saramago

The truth was that all men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.

— James Madison

Concentrated political power is the most dangerous thing on earth.

— Rudolph Rummel

It may come as a surprise to some academics, but there is a marked relationship between economic power and political power.

— Michael Pare

Political power does not rest with those who cast votes; political power rests with those who count votes.

— Joseph Stalin

“Creative destruction redistributes not simply income and wealth, but also political power,”

— Daron Acemoğlu

Any man who has ever tried to use political power for the common good has felt an awful sense of powerlessness.

— Robert Casey

“It can be difficult to speak truth to power. Circumstances, however, have made doing so increasingly necessary.”

— Aberjhani

The real danger of democracy is, that the classes which have the power under it will assume all the rights and reject…

— William Graham Sumner

I think that building political power has to come from the outside and from within. Meaning, we have to build political alternatives…

— Alicia Garza

There must be an end to white monopoly on political power, and a fundamental restructuring of our political and economic systems to…

— Nelson Mandela

Among the most famous of these Supreme Court cases of exercise of political power I believe are the cases of Roe V.…

— Sam Brownback

I understand the importance of political power, so I will use my strength and influence to convince as many people as I…

— Danny Danon

When economic power became concentrated in a few hands, then political power flowed to those possessors and away from the citizens, ultimately…

— John Adams

The abuse of political power is not as important as the loss of lives. Plus there is a process for curing the…

— Babatunde Fashola

Creationists are possibly gaining more political power. In the U.S., you are constantly hearing stories of school boards harassing teachers and trying…

— Richard Dawkins

“The goal was organized resistance to racial subjugation, and its harassing effect was probably more potent precisely because they risked so much…

— Derrick Bell

My passionate belief is in the role of movements to achieve political power to transform society. In this country, we talk about…

— Owen Jones

“But you know, General, Jesus never came to establish a government upon the people by force. He did not even talk about…

— Ravi Zacharias

There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or…

— Plato

From the viewpoint of political power, culture is absolutely vital. So vital, indeed, that power cannot operate without it. It is culture,…

— Terry Eagleton

Economic power is exercised by means of a positive, by offering men a reward, an incentive, a payment, a value; political power…

— Ayn Rand

I think that white women are more apt to read laterally. So I think there's some strong identification for women, and their…

— Sherman Alexie

The very idea of the law in a constitutional republic involves the requisite that it be a rule, a guide, uniform, fixed…

— Levi Woodbury

“At the present time, political power is everywhere constituted on insufficient foundations. On the one hand it emanates from the so-called divine…

— Edouard Schure

“The extraordinary value of the I Ching is that it reveals the secrets of dynamic natural law. Working with its changes opens…

— Patricia E. West

“Unless,” I said, “the philosophers rule as kings or those now called kings and chiefs genuinely and adequately philosophize, and political power…

— Plato

“Neither the fanatics nor the faint-hearted are needed. And our duty as a Party is not to our Party alone, but to…

— John F. Kennedy

“He could have disembarked in one of the world's greatest cities. People would have said, "Right time, right place, look what fate…

— Kyle Idleman

“At the same time, these men and women do not hesitate to align themselves with those in power in order to strengthen…

— Thích Nhất Hạnh

“Not one little fellow need fear that he will be forbidden to pluck his shining grape from the cluster of political Power,…

— Alfred de Vigny

“This economy is based upon consumption, which ultimately serves, not the ordinary consumers, but a tiny class of excessively wealthy people for…

— Wendell Berry