Quotes About Power

Samo?a je sudbina i prokletstvo svakog ko raspolaže mo?ima koje nema ljudska ve?ina.

?avola, koji sve zavodi, može zavesti jedino žena.

Tako i po tome, u našoj Bolnici vladaju zakoni koji važe i van nje: vladaoci bez vrlina najomiljeniji su vladaoci. Svetina voli one koji vole ono što ona voli, koji ?ine sve što bi oni, dripci, ?inili kad bi bili na vlasti. Rulja mrzi pravdoljupce i istinoljupce, ljude koji poštuju zakone i rade pošteno.

Resistance is useless.

The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. Instead of altering their views to fit the facts, they alter the facts to fit their views...which can be very uncomfortable if you happen to be one of the facts that needs altering.

public display and operatic suffering—an in-your-face owning of one's vulnerability and fucked-upness to the point of embarrassing and offending tight-asses is a powerful feminist strategy. Writing is tough work, I don't see how anyone can really write from a position of weakness. Sometimes I may start out in that position, but the act of commandeering words flips me into a position of power.

If I can hold God's attention, I can hold the world's..

It's too much energy for this little teeny body. Because the galaxy is smaller than the energy you are. This planet Earth is smaller than the energy you are. This body is smaller than the energy you are.

this Earth. It seems like mankind evolves to a higher state and then they allow power and greed to completely absorb them and what they have learned. Then they are destroyed, and they take many, many steps backward.

It is like a kingdom. It is the same old thing, just a different name, to keep the peasants in line. A system of the higher ups against the little people. They believe that there is only their God, and that all the others are evil. That there is only one way to be good, and that is the way they teach. And if you do not follow their instructions you will be damned for eternity.

You must not hope, you must believe. Hope has no power or strength, but believing does. With belief we can work toward our ultimate destiny.

It was mainly developed as a political device to help build the power of the orthodox church and to help overcome the influence of the gnostics.

No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again.

Any son of a dictator, I'm sure, has major issues with their relationship with their father.

The basic lesson of 1805–7 was that not only must the three eastern monarchies unite but the Russian army must already be positioned in central Europe when military operations began.

In July and August 1914, fewer than fifty individuals, all of them men, made the decisions that took their countries to war.

one-quarter of the world's land surface changed hands between 1876 and 1915,

People are fascinated by the rich: Shakespeare wrote plays about kings, not beggars.

He knew the kind of people who said "We'll send our plane" when they invited him for weekends in distant places.

In time he found that all his perceptions were subject to the same easy control

Emerson wrote, 'A good indignation brings out all one's powers.' I would think that all three of us should be indignant and, with our combined powers, we should be invincible.

The Servant who really studies his Master gradually becomes like his master; gradually learns that he himself is the one who in the end does all the work and has all the power.

Never underestimate the power of the State to act out its own massive fantasies.

People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power.