Power Quotes

“He who has seen a river change its course knows that a river has a will of its own.”

“My weapon is literature.”

“The powerful hate truth.”

“Information is power, and the more information you have, the better decisions you can make.”

“Even in the scabbard, a sword is a sword, and implies a use.”

“I was to advance to the country of the Iroquois... there to show them the extent of our power.”

“Why did the wise men not lock up the madmen?”

“There is no power relation without the correlative constitution of a field of knowledge, nor any knowledge that does not presuppose and constitute at the same time power relations.”

“A private company is a totalitarian system. It's a command economy. You do what you're told or you're out.”

“There's a lot of power in a song. There's a lot of power in music.”

“Calculus is the most powerful weapon of thought yet devised by the wit of man.”

“An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.”

“I'm interested in power. I'm interested in the abuse of power.”

“Your mind is what makes everything else work.”

“The real forces are the creative forces. The negative forces are the destructive forces. These are the only two forces. And you are the master of these forces.”

“The argument that the press is too powerful is a recurring theme. It's a theme that goes back to the founding of the republic.”

“I am not a pretty girl. I don't want to be a pretty girl. I want to be a powerful woman.”

“The establishment is made up of little men, very frightened.”

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

“Great men are almost always bad men.”