The power which establishes a state is violence; the power which maintains it is violence; the power which eventually overthrows it is violence.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Power, in a nutshell, is the ability to get things done, and politics is the ability to decide which things need to be done.
Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.
The power to prevent violence is a power that no police force seems to have anywhere in the United States.
Power means happiness; power means hard work and sacrifice.
The state has physical power and uses it when necessary; the power of religion is love and beneficence.
The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.
Powerful states can maintain themselves only by crime, little states are virtuous only by weakness.
Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.
Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.
It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic power.