Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

You have no power or authority, of course.... Is there anything we can appear to do?

Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.

I'm Machiavelli's offspring, I'm the king of New York, king of the coast, one hand, I juggle them both.

An educated people can be easily governed.

Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.

Secrecy is the foundation of politics.

A good deal of tyranny goes by the name of protection.

The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour.

A usurper always distrusts the whole world.

It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.

The more the technocrats programme it down to the smallest detail, the more the powerful manipulate it, football continues to be the art of the unforeseeable. When you least expect it, the impossible occurs: the dwarf teaches the giant a lesson, and a scraggy, bow-legged black man makes an athlete sculpted in Greece look ridiculous.

What the power structure is afraid of is that we're going to learn to recognize the truth when we hear it.

It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.

To be honest, the fact that people trust you gives you a lot of power over people. Having another person's trust is more powerful than all other management techniques put together.

Men still have to be governed by deception.

So I still seized the power, but I felt that if I officially made myself the boss, in black and white, it would be too intimidating for the other producers and the other men who worked on the show. In other words, I had the power, but I gave them the title.

Fear is the foundation of most governments.

Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.

All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.

The second is the structure and source of cults. They have always haunted me, and I wanted to explore the fundamental notion of giving up responsibility to an outside power.

Patriotism ... for rulers is nothing else than a tool for achieving their power-hungry and money-hungry goals, and for the ruled it means renouncing their human dignity, reason, conscience, and slavish submission to those in power. ... Patriotism is slavery.

King's entreaties are commands.

They go where I tell them and do what I tell them.