Those with power would always find some way to exert it over those who didn’t.

To be frank, politics is about wanting power, getting it, exercising it, and keeping it.

The person holding supreme power always feels that others are plotting a power grab.

Politics is the art of making the people believe that they are in power, when in fact, they have none.

The exercise of one coercion always makes another inevitable.

That’s what politics is all about—coercion and lies.

Politics is the name we give to the orchestration of power in any society.

Everybody wants power. Power in some form or other. [...] Some people want power to persecute other human beings; you expend your lust for power in persecuting words, twisting them, molding them, torturing them to obey you.

To a political mind, everything is politics.

Politics is about the persuasion required to move people to judgement.

Researcher: In almost every country there are people trying to seize political power! What is the easy way?

Obtain power, then, by all means; power is the law of man; make it yours.

As with all things political, the issue was power.

The greatest power one human being can exert over others is to control their perceptions of reality, and infringe on the integrity and individuality of their world. This is done in politics, in psychotherapy.