Quotes about Power
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
If our planes were shot down, yes, they's wake me right away. If the other fellows' were shot down, why wake me up?
— Ronald Reagan
Politicians are just a bunch of local bandits, sent by their local voters to raid the public treasury.
— Will Rogers
The whole art of politics consists in directing rationally the irrationalities of men.
— Reinhold Niebuhr