Power Quotes

"David Bruce, I think, is one of the outstanding persons for whom I've ever worked. He had a sense of balance. He was interested in everything that went on in the Embassy. He delegated authority, but at the same time when you needed the Ambassador's help on anything, you could go to him, and he would immediately respond."

"Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own."

"We have two American flags always: one for the rich and one for the poor. When the rich fly it means that things are under control; when the poor fly it means danger, revolution, anarchy."

"Food might be more immediately important than history but if you don't understand what's been done to you - by your own people and the so-called 'they' - you can never get around it."

"If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power."

"Dr. Flint had sworn that he would make me suffer, to my last day, for this new crime against him, as he called it; and as long as he had me in his power he kept his word."

"I'm rarely grabbed by anything the way I was when I was 10 years younger. About the only relatively new artists whose albums I own are Beck, and They Might Be Giants."

"In this context the British and Irish governments will have to promote a new, imaginative and dynamic alternative in which both governments will share power in the north."

"I just feel that the only power I have is setting a good example."

"I have been extremely lucky; I am a person who is currently living with a cancer that is under control."

"At last I perceive that in revolutions the supreme power rests with the most abandoned."

"In revolutions authority remains with the greatest scoundrels."

"It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to."

"Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship."

"It is never too late to be what you might have been."

"The golden rule is that there are no golden rules."

"Early to bed and early to rise is a bad rule for anyone who wishes to become acquainted with our most prominent and influential people."

"I have trouble with direction, because I have trouble with authority. I was not a good Marine."

"Top-down authority structures turn employees into bootlickers, breed pointless struggles for political advantage, and discourage dissent."

"India is a regional power. It does not need anything to establish it."