Power Loss Quotes

If you have to abuse your power, you're probably in the process of losing it.

Women tend to be conservative in youth and get more radical as they get older because they lose power with age. So if a young woman is not a feminist, I say, 'Just wait.'

Louis XVI has broken his own crown.

What is gained by violence must be lost before superior violence.

As a historian, I'm sceptical about conspiracy theories because the world is far too complicated to be managed by a few billionaires drinking scotch behind some closed doors. But I do think that the voters are correct in sensing that they're really losing power. And in reaction, they give the system an angry kick.

Batteries are the most dramatic object. Other things stop working or they break, But Batteries... They Die.

North Korea faded to black in the early 1990s. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, which had propped up its old Communist ally with cheap fuel oil, North Korea's creakily inefficient economy collapsed. Power stations rusted into ruin.

American decline is real, though the apocalyptic vision reflects the familiar ruling class perception that anything short of total control amounts to total disaster.

Nothing is as sad as seeing a person who used to have power have none.

Dictators are the last to know.

My experience with power, you can maintain it, or you get it taken from you. You get you some newfound power and go crazy, and it get taken from you quick.

The more you are talked about the less powerful you are.

Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a politician who has lost his job, save only a retired stud-horse.

Kings lose crowns but teachers stay intelligent

Your pretty empire took so long to build, now, with a snap of history's fingers, down it goes.

We have lost control over our own power. We have surrendered the decisions about where electricity is sold—and for how much, to private companies with only one objective: maximizing unheard-of profits.

Tradition is the thief of power. There is no area of our lives where that theft is more evident than in the area of divine healing.

Dictatorships sometimes fall unexpectedly and quickly. And [Vladimir] Putin knows that for him, the loss of power doesn't mean a comfortable retirement, but something completely different.

Advertising has annihilated the power of the most powerful adjectives.

Unfortunately, when you're the king of the hill, there's really only one way to go, and that's down.

If we don't stop behaving like the British Empire, we will end up like the British Empire.

Since mankind's dawn, a handful of oppressors have accepted the responsibility over our lives that we should have accepted for ourselves. By doing so, they took our power. By doing nothing, we gave it away. We've seen where their way leads, through camps and wars, towards the slaughterhouse.

Panem et Circenses" translates into 'Bread and Circuses.' The writer was saying that in return for full bellies and entertainment, his people had given up their political responsibilities and therefore their power.

Receding power rides a swift horse.

The more power you have, the more surely it will be taken from you before you are ready to give it up.