Zbigniew Brzezinski Quotes

Culture follows power.

The power to define the situation is the ultimate power.

Power is not just political. It can be cultural; it can be spiritual.

If we show ourselves as weak, we lose.... In the end, we want to lead the Muslim world. We can only do that with our heads held high.

Power is being able to affect the hegemony of existing systems.

Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.

Power never turns power down, ever, unless institutionally demanded.

Power is not something that can be assumed or discarded at will like underwear.

The word power has such a generally negative implication in our society. What are people talking about? Are they talking about muscles, or control?

The concept of power we admire is power over someone else.

What we really need to be understanding is that all of these things matter and they all stem from the fact that certain people live with power and authority and they want to maintain it.

My aim was never to seek a force and take power.

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

He was always testing you. He was always testing his power.

Design is not so much a design issue as a power struggle.

I'm not into power for the sake of it.

There are no living beings who exert more power over others, pound for pound, than tiny babies and extremely thin moguls.

Without any doubt, I am striving for power.

There are two things that interest me - and they're both power, ultimately. One is not having it and one is abusing it.

That power which had both the purse and the sword, had the government of the whole country, and might extend its powers to any and to every object.

Power never takes a back step—only in the face of more power.

Law is merely the expression of the will of the strongest for the time being.

All political questions, all matters of right, are at bottom only questions of might.

Power abdicates only under stress of counter-power.

France will be heeded if it has a message to convey.