Power Shift Quotes

Any elite which is not prepared to join in battle to defend its position is in full decadence, and all that is left to it is to give way to another elite having the virile qualities it lacks.

The tyrant dies and his rule is over; the martyr dies and his rule begins.

Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion, while the strength of a majority is illusory, formed by the gangs who have no opinion - and who, therefore, in the next instant (when it is evident that the minority is the stronger) assume its opinion ... while Truth again reverts to a new minority.

In the long run even the most despotic governments with all their brutality and cruelty are no match for ideas. Eventually the ideology that has won the support of the majority will prevail and cut the ground from under the tyrants feet. Then the oppressed many will rise in rebellion and overthrow their masters.

All power is fast getting into the hands of the very lowest people.

When the white man came we had the land and they had the Bibles; now they have the land and we have the Bibles.

The day of small nations has long passed away. The day of Empires has come.

Experience shows that the most dangerous moment for a bad government is usually just as its starting on reform.

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

Brahmins cannot hope to claim a high and superior status forever. Times are changing. They have to come down.

What did the workers and peasants gain when power passed from the kings and nobles to the bankers and manufacturers?

When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots.

A revolution must aim at the destruction of the given order and will succeed only by asserting an order of its own.

There will never be a new world order until women are a part of it.

The gatekeepers don't control the gates, and the powers that be aren't as powerful.

Nations and empires flourish and decay, By turns command, and in their turns obey.

We have come from the divine right of kings to the divine right of the governed.

World power is fleeting. Nations rise and fall.

We will have a government where liberals will stay in power until they get radical and conservatives will have the power until they get reactionary.

A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another.

Thus, the forces and value systems that are most threatened by this shift are becoming the most coherent and are rising to the top as minority or plurality powers. But they do not represent either the shift, the change, or the future.

Nothing is so common as to see a political upheaval pass practically unnoticed merely because the names of the leaders and their parties remain the same.

We were in the presence of a new factor in human affairs. We possessed powers which were irresistible ... our outlook on the future was transformed.

The National Socialist Revolution is not simply the taking of power in the state by one party from another, but brings a complete revolution of our German existence. Henceforth every matter demands decision, and every act demands responsibility.

I have resolved to return the destiny of our country to our soldiers.