权力
The power elite are not solitary rulers. Advisors and consultants, spokesmen and opinion-makers, are often the captains of their higher thought and decision.
The power elite is composed of men whose positions enable them to transcend the ordinary environments of ordinary men and women; they are in positions to make decisions having major consequences.
The only weapon of power, its only strategy against this defection, is to reinject realness and referentiality everywhere, in order to convince us of the reality of the social, of the gravity of the economy and the finalities of production.
The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.
It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.
The fact is that women have more power and influence in America today than at any other time in our history.
The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.
The value or worth of a man is, as of all other things, his price; that is to say, so much as would be given for the use of his power.
The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath, to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life.
States are rational actors that seek to maximize their relative power in order to ensure their survival in a competitive international system.
International politics is a brutal and unforgiving arena, where states constantly strive to maximize their power and security.
The best way to ensure peace is to maintain a balance of power among the major states.
The great powers are always searching for opportunities to gain power at the expense of their rivals, which makes them inherently aggressive.