Sigmund Freud Quotes

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

One must be a somebody before they can have a enemy. One must be a force before he can be resisted by another force.

Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Machiavelli taught me it was better to be feared than loved. Because if you are loved they sense you might be weak. I am a man of the people and help them but it is important to do so through strength.

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

Power abdicates only under stress of counter-power.

It is hard to oppose an ideology with a tradition.

You have power, rank, command, influence; we have wealth, the source both of our strength and weakness.

Are not Religion & Politics the Same Thing?

Weakness cannot cooperate with anything. Only strength can cooperate.

Oh yes, right—right. What is the use of having right on your side if you have not got might?

Good men who exercise power are really the most fascinating of all people.

I have with me two gods, Persuasion and Compulsion.

Culture follows power.

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

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

I'm not in power, but my ideas are in power. And my ideas will prevail.

A word after a word after a word is power.

Power is paradoxical.

You may have the might, but that does not necessarily make you right.

In a confrontation with the politics of power, the soft center has always melted away.

We're taught Lord Acton's axiom: all power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. I believed that when I started these books, but I don't believe it's always true any more. Power doesn't always corrupt. Power can cleanse. What I believe is always true about power is that power always reveals.

Religion is just mind control.

Might was the measure of right.