E. W. Howe Quotes

Nothing appears more surprising ... than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.

What is government but an arrangement by which the many accept the authority of the few?

all history shows that the hand that cradles the rock has ruled the world, not the hand that rocks the cradle!

The hand that controls the supper dish rules the world!

Who is king in the world of the blind when there isn't even a one eyed man?

You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.

Men are marked out from the moment of birth to rule or to be ruled.

You run the party or the party runs you.

They who possess the prince possess the laws.

The people who exercise the power are not always the same people over whom it is exercised.

The majority of people wherever found ought in all questions to govern the minority.

To govern men, you must either excel them in their accomplishments, or despise them.

Control is the source of strategic power.

Power makes you a monarch, and all the fancy robes in the world won't do the job without it.

Let them obey that knows not how to rule.

I think the policy makers like the idea of being the boss. I mean people who like to boss other people around like to go into politics so they can become the boss.

Those who have ruled human destinies, like planets, for thousands of years, were not handsome men.

The world is ruled by force, not by opinion; but opinion uses force.

Force rules the world-not opinion; but it is opinion that makes use of force.

Influence is not government.

Opinion is, as it were, the queen of the world, but force is its tyrant.

Power is not a means; it is an end.

Nothing appears more surprising to those, who consider human affairs with a philosophical eye, than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few; and the implicit submission, with which men resign their own sentiments and passions to those of their rulers.

By the time you become the leader of a country, someone else makes all the decisions.

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