Hans Morgenthau Quotes

All politics is a struggle for power; the ultimate kind of power is violence.

To me, the movie is about power.

Power is as power does.

The wielders of power did not speak for it, nor did they naturally serve it. Their interest was to use and develop power, no less natural and necessary than liberty but more dangerous.

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

One man with a gun can control 100 without one.

Sometimes I think the world is divided into those who have a comfortable relationship with power and those who have a naturally adversarial relationship with power.

'Tis hard to comprehend how one man can come to be master of many, equal to himself in right, unless it be by consent or by force.

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.

Oppression is the essence of power.

As men could not make might obey right, they have made right obey might.

A man with a club is a law-maker.

Any coalition, especially where one party is more powerful than the other, it's always bound to have a pecking order.

What is 'power' anyway? Power is an ego trip. Power is a way to rise yourself up by lowering others, and I want nothing of it.

Power is all. Another falsification; I do not tell how I gain or maintain it. I only record the ginger stroll through the vaguely fetid garden of its rewards.

When authority is backed up by an immediate physical compulsion, what we are dealing with is not authority proper (i.e. symbolic authority), but simply an agency of brute force.

Just remember that the only question in a house is who is to rule. The rest is only dancing around that, trying not to look it in the eye.

Power, however it has evolved, whatever its origins, will not be given up without a struggle.

Because the good old rule Sufficeth them,-the simple plan, That they should take who have the power, And they should keep who can.

Power-over is resorted to time without number because people will not wait for the slower process of education.

Most power is power to coerce somebody. We don't have the power to coerce anybody.

The only thing power respects, is power.

La raison du plus fort est toujours la meilleure. The reason of the strongest is always the best.

The most important thing about power is to make sure you don't have to use it.