Quotes About Power

Men are weak and silly and they admire strength and goddamn it, I had it.

visto che il Potere non permette che si preparino uomini che pensino agli uomini ma solo uomini che pensino al Potere, pensino soprattutto a difendere il Potere; lo Stato pensa a se stesso e pensa alla gente solo per quel tanto e nei modi che permettono al Potere di esserci e sopravvivere.

Se voglio dire che il disegno – costruzione di una cosa o oggetto o strumento – è fatto bene, è bello, certamente lo posso dire quando voglio... ma se non sono un potente non lo posso sostenere.

il Potere non permette che si preparino uomini che pensino agli uomini ma solo uomini che pensino al Potere, pensino soprattutto a difendere il Potere; lo Stato pensa a se stesso e pensa alla gente solo per quel tanto e nei modi che permettono al Potere di esserci e sopravvivere.

A whole tree of lightning stood in the sky. She kept looking out the window, suffused with the warmth from the fire and with the pity and beauty and power of her death. The thunder rolled.

Both reading and writing are experiences--lifelong-- in the course of which we who encounter words used in certain ways are persuaded by them to be brought mind and heart within the presence, the power, of the imagination.

To write honestly and with all our powers is the least we can do, and the most.

hardest time: our voice will not be our own. The crusader's voice is the voice of the crowd and must rise louder all the time, for there is, of course, the other side to be drowned out. Worse, the voices of most crowds sound alike. Worse still, the voice that seeks to do other than communicate when it makes a noise has something brutal about it; it is no longer using words as words but as something to brandish, with which to threaten, brag or condemn.

Politicians are either there or here or totally at home. Their finitude is more than sufficient unto itself. I don't mean to imply that I'm any better than they which does not mean that they are any better than I. Which doesn't mean anything at all.

Your hold on me is great. But the universe is greater, and what I need is greater still.

Sometimes a sermon idea seemed to emerge on its own, possessed of its own power, and required a developmental process more akin to pruning than putting together.

For de small stealing dey puts you in jail, soon or late. But for de big stealing dey puts yo' picture in de paper and yo' statue in de Hall of Fame when you croaks! If dey's one thing I learned in ten years, listenin' to de white quality on de Pullman cars, it's dat same fact. And when I gets a chance to use it -- from stowaway to Emperor in two years. Dat's goin' some!

Our fears are informed by history and economics, by social power and stigma, by myths and nightmares. And as with other strongly held beliefs, our fears are dear to us. When we encounter information that contradicts our beliefs, as Slovic found in one of his studies, we tend to doubt the information, not ourselves.

Hãy nói n?u b?n có nh?ng l?i l? m?nh hÆ¡n. N?u không, hãy im l?ng.' (_Euripide_)

I know indeed what evil I intend to do, but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury, fury that brings upon mortals the greatest evils.

Marshall made his decision, now let him enforce it.

One man with courage makes a majority.

The great can protect themselves, but the poor and humble require the arm and shield of the law.

LOS REPORTEROS no trabajamos para ser queridos. Es nuestra responsabilidad hacer preguntas duras a los ricos y poderosos

Outside of the Constitution we have no legal authority more than private citizens, and within it we have only so much as that instrument gives us. This broad principle limits all our functions and applies to all subjects.

Rather than creating more competition, it has created immensely powerful new monopolists like Google and Amazon.

In a world of digital resources at your fingertips, it is easy to forget about good old-fashioned libraries and books, but printed books have provided me with many pieces of valuable information that were never found online. Never underestimate the power of a real book or a real map and many thanks go out to anyone who works at a library or bookstore.

This, finally, is the model of all radicalism, in the grip of which men reenact the fall of man as adults so often reenact their childhood traumas. Radicals transgress the paradox of virtue because they claim the knowledge of good and evil for themselves and strip the power to freely choose virtue from others. In this way, they transform their imagined paradise into a living hell.

The Ruling Class by Peter Barnes.