Power Seizure Quotes

If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.

I saw the crown of France laying on the ground, so I picked it up with my sword.

To make a State appear necessary, any would-be State must first destroy the natural order and create a Hobbesian "anarchy" characterized by looting and vandalizing.

When government disappears, it's not as if paradise will take its place. When governments are gone, other interests will take their place.

When any one person or body of men seize into their hands the power in the last resort, there is properly no longer a government, but what Aristotle and his followers call the abuse and corruption of one.

We intend to try by every means in our power to seize the country and create a government without bloodshed.

Sovereignty and kingship are never decided by academic debate. They are seized by force.

Fight labor's demands to the last ditch and there will come a time when it seizes the whole of power, makes itself sovereign and takes what it used to ask.

To put on the garment of legitimacy is the first aim of every coup.

What happened in Russia in 1917 wasn't a revolution - it was a coup d'etat.

The European Union, which is not directly responsible to voters, provides an irresistible opportunity for European elites to seize power in order to impose their own vision on a newly socially regimented Europe.

The way to have power is to take it.

Both major political parties have long since been seized by the same powerful group of manipulators.

Al Gore’s not going to be rounding up Jews and exterminating them. It is the same tactic, however. You got to have an enemy to fight. And when you have an enemy to fight, then you can unite the entire world behind you, and you seize power. That was Hitler’s plan. His enemy: the Jew. Al Gore’s enemy, the U.N.’s enemy: global warming.

Marx.... Lenin.... Mao Tse-Tung.... These men were animated by the love of brother and this we must believe though their ends meant the seizure of power, and the building of mighty armies, the compulsion of concentration camps, the forced labor and torture and killing of tens of thousands, even millions.

We seem to be a long way off from the kind of Fascism which we behold in Italy today, but we are not so far from the kind of Fascism which Mussolini preached in Italy before he assumed power, and we are slowly approaching the conditions which made Fascism there possible.

Every provisional political set-up following a revolution requires a dictatorship, and an energetic dictatorship at that.

Islamic fundamentalists … had no interest in democracy except as a one-way ticket to power.

First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin

My ideas for the future? To take over the world.

For one to grasp, whatever be his object, sov'reign power ... is an act of perilous presumption.

History is a series of mistakes. Now the task is to plan for those mistakes so those of us who are populists can actually take over the reins of power when the right mistakes are made.

Powerful people cannot afford to educate the people that they oppress, because once you are truly educated, you will not ask for power. You will take it.

I never staged a coup. They picked me up. Like I say, they forced me to become premier, maybe hoping that by that way, they send me to the electric chair.

Not long ago, if you wanted to seize political power in a country you had merely to control the army and the police. Today it is only in the most backward countries that fascist generals, in carrying out a coup d'état, still use tanks. If a country has reached a high degree of industrialization the whole scene changes.... Today a country belongs to the person who controls communications.