BEST QUOTES ABOUT POLITICAL POWER

“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” – Lord Acton

“The only way to deal with people wielding political power is to take it away from them.” – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“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.” – George Orwell

“Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.” – Mao Zedong

“The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.” – Thomas Jefferson

“Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.” – Honore de Balzac

“It is not power that corrupts, but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.” – Aung San Suu Kyi

“Power is not given, it is taken.” – Caesar F. Barajas

“Political power grows out of organized knowledge.” – Woodrow Wilson

“One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.” – Chinua Achebe

“Power is not a dirty word, but a word associated with corruption and greed will inevitably become so.” – Graham Joyce

“Wherever there is power, there is also resistance.” – Michel Foucault

“The measure of a man is what he does with power.” – Plato YOU MATTER SHORT QUOTES

“The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless.” – C. Wright Mills

“When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.” – Jimi Hendrix

“Political power is the power of the past.” – Mortimer Adler

“People power is always greater than political power.” – Cory Aquino

“Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.” – Honore de Balzac

“Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.” – Mao Zedong

“The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.” – Benjamin Disraeli

“There is no force so powerful as an idea whose time has come.” – Victor Hugo

“The greatest power is the power to choose.” – John F. Kennedy

“Power never takes a step back—only in the face of more power.” – Malcolm X

“Political power is exercised by those who are most ruthless, greedy, and heartless.” – Bangambiki Habyarimana

“The powerful always deceive to control the powerless; it is inherent in their nature.” – A.E. Samaan