Power & Society Sayings

207 sayings found from the Modern era from 207 authors

When the President does it, that means that it is not illegal.

— Richard Nixon 1977
Political

What I cannot follow are the manic-depressive fluctuations from total control to no control, from the serialization of all elements to chance.

— Igor Stravinsky unknown
Power & Leadership

When I am in the White House, I am the President; when I am in the country, I am a farmer.

— Theodore Roosevelt 1901-1909
Political

The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.

— Woodrow Wilson 1917
Political

I don't give a damn about the Republicans or the Democrats. I'm interested in the United States of America.

— Harry Truman 1940s-1950s
Political

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

— Dwight Eisenhower 1945
War & Conflict

In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.

— Charles de Gaulle Unknown
Political

The truth is that men are tired of liberty.

— Benito Mussolini 1926
Justice & Rights

The rich man who gives, steals twice over. First he steals the money and then the hearts of men.

— Edvard Munch Early 20th Century
Money & Business

The United Nations is nothing more than a Masonic-Communist plot.

— Francisco Franco 1950s
Political

We didn't come here to live in peace. We came here to conquer.

— David Ben-Gurion N/A (alleged)
War & Conflict

We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon — no alternative.

— Golda Meir 1969
War & Conflict

I regret the outbreak of the war and the suffering it caused. I wish that such a thing had not happened.

— Emperor Hirohito Post-war
War & Conflict

Ignorance is the greatest enemy of progress.

— Haile Selassie Various
War & Conflict

We prefer self-government with danger to servitude in tranquility.

— Kwame Nkrumah 1956
Political

We are not afraid of freedom. We are not afraid of liberty. We are not afraid of independence.

— Patrice Lumumba 1958
Justice & Rights

Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas?

— Joseph Stalin 1934
Power & Leadership

My father was a statesman, I am a political woman. My father was a saint, I am a sinner.

— Indira Gandhi Uncertain
Political

I kill because I am a king, and a king must rule.

— Shaka Zulu c. 1820s
Power & Leadership

Money doesn't excite me, my ideas excite me.

— Walt Disney Unknown
Money & Business
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