Quotes About Power

I wondered...if there should be anything wrong with Sen. Joe McCarthy (Republican) of Wisconsin which a .577 solid would not cure.

Muck everybody but the people and then be damned careful what they turn into when they have power.

That is why the peasant has wisdom, because he is defeated from the start. Put him in power and see how wise he is.

But she has a tongue that scalds and that bites like a bull whip. With this tongue she takes the hide from any one. She is of an unbelievable barbarousness.

Es más fácil vivir bajo un régimen que combatirlo. Esta lucha clandestina es una cosa en la que hay muchas responsabilidades.

Strašna je ova ribetina, moram je obuzdati, pomisli. Ne smijem joj dopustiti da postane svjesna svoje snage ni onoga što bi mogla u?initi kad bi potegnula svom snagom. Da sam na njezinu mjestu, sad bih zapeo iz sve snage i povukao pa kud puklo da puklo. Ali one, hvala Bogu, nisu tako pametne ko mi koji ih ubijama, iako su plemenitije i sposobnije od nas.

I must never let him learn his strength nor what he could do if he made his run.

Was there ever a people whose leaders were as truly their enemies as this one?

in weakness, a man can present a great danger

The dignity of movement of an ice-berg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water.

El secreto de la sabiduría, del poder y del conocimiento es la humildad

Let them all go to hell, except the people, and then, when they come to power, we must be dam cautious to see what they will become.

He is a great fish and I must convince him, he thought. I must never let him learn his strength nor what he could do if he made his run. If I were him I would put in everything now and go until something broke. But, thank God, they are not as intelligent as we who kill them; although they are more noble and able.

But in weakness a man can be a great danger.

Red swine. Mother rapers. Eaters of the milk of thy fathers.

The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water'.

it is much easier to be the opposition to a government than to run the government yourself.

Well, in San Francisco if someone's against you, they know how to vote you out of an area. If someone's against you in Louisiana, or if I wrote a book and they did not like it or me in Louisiana, they might shoot me anytime.

I didn't want to show it. Because if what he was saying was true, there wasn't a thing I could do about it. Marshall was too big. If it was just Bonbon who wanted to hurt Marcus, you might be able to prevent that. Bonbon was nothing but a poor white man, and sometimes you could go to the rich white man for help. But where did you go when it was the rich white man? You couldn't even go to the law, because he was the law. He was police, he was judge, he was jury.

Why?" I kept on asking myself. "Why? Who is this boy and why?" I knew that white men bonded colored boys out of jail for a few hundred dollars and worked them until they had gotten all their money back two and three times over. But I was trying to figure out why Marshall Hebert would do this when he already had more people than he needed. Now I knew. This little old lady had the finger on him, too.

Lincoln almost got it right.  Sure you can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time. Who cares!  All you really have to do is fool most of the people right before the election.

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

Knowledge of the name gives him who knows it mastery even over the being and will of the god.

The activity of a creative field becomes further invigorated when similar creative fields are generated by other people. This is because creative fields having the same vibrational frequency tend to merge, forming large-scale collective creative fields. These collective creative fields can be extremely pervasive. The bigger they are, the more powerfully they respond to thoughts emanating from people in various places.