Quotes About Power

en los noventa, la confianza en el poder de los mercados se había generalizado hasta tal punto que la liberalización financiera era impulsada por algunos de mis colegas dentro de la Administración, y al final también por el propio Clinton.

El éxito de Trump ha sido el de formar una coalición con la comunidad empresarial, igual que entonces: los fascistas solo llegaron al poder con el apoyo de una amplia coalición conservadora que incluía al empresariado.

Y hay otras semejanzas entre Reagan y Trump: una de ellas es la voluntad abierta de servir a los intereses de las grandes corporaciones

The failures in politics and economics are related, and they reinforce each other. A political system that amplifies the voice of the wealthy provides ample opportunity for laws and regulations—and the administration of them—to be designed in ways that not only fail to protect the ordinary citizens against the wealthy but also further enrich the wealthy at the expense of the rest of society. This

Esos ataques y el empeño de crear una realidad alternativa han sido siempre una parte constitutiva del fascismo, desde la gran mentira de los Goebbels en adelante.

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Ich geselle mich zu ihnen und schaue ebenfalls voller Ehrfurcht und Bewunderung zu diesem gewaltigen Bauwerk auf und erschaudere angesichts einer Kultur, die eine solche Waffe, ein solch perverses Monument der Massenvernichtung bauen konnte.

Die Götter der Mythen handelten mit einem Maß an Kleinlichkeit, Missgunst und oberflächlicher Moral, das selbst verglichen mit den verkommenen moralischen Maßstäben unserer eigenen Kultur in keinem Verhältnis zu der Macht steht, die sie ausübten.

Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.   —HONORÉ DE BALZAC

Hearing the Dharma and sharing it with others is the fifth skillful action. Words have power, and many people have become enlightened simply by attentive listening to the teachings. Listening itself is an art.

In a staggering display of power, the caster causes all portals within 1 mile to blast open in a violent burst. [...] Moreover, normal fasteners and stoppers are loosened or dislodged, such that wine corks fizz open, lids fall off dinner pots, shoelaces unlace, snaps loosen, belts unbuckle, and so on.

When you consider the opportunity and power He had to really do a job, and then look at the stupid, ugly little mess He made of it instead, His sheer incompetence is almost staggering.

Under Colonel Korn's rule, the only people permitted to ask questions were those who never did.

Catch-22 says they have the right to do anything we can't stop them from doing.

She destroyed egos by the score and made men hate themselves in the morning by the way she found them, used them, and tossed them aside.

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I suppose it is just about impossible for someone like me to rebel anymore and produce any kind of lasting effect. I have lost the power to upset things that I had as a child; I can no longer change my environment or even disturb it seriously.

I will give you intelligence, submitted the Creator, enough knowledge to destroy everything on earth, but you will have to use it. Done! said our ancestor and that was our Genesis.

They might have occurred if either General Dreedle or General Peckem had once evinced an interest in taking part in orgies with him, but neither ever did, and the colonel was certainly not going to waste time and energy making love to beautiful women unless there was something in it for him.

It isn't even good grammar. What the hell does it mean when they disappear somebody?

Don't be such an ass, Scheisskopf. People have a right to do anything that's not forbidden by law, and there's no law against lying to you.

His goading remained gentle. "Rome was destroyed, Greece was destroyed, Persia was destroyed, Spain was destroyed. All great countries are destroyed. Why not yours? How much longer do you really think your own country will last? Forever? Keep in mind that the earth itself is destined to be destroyed by the sun in twenty-five million years or so.

No such private nights of ecstasy or hushed-up drinking and sex orgies ever occurred. They might have occurred if either General Dreedle or General Peckem had once evinced an interest in taking part in orgies with him, but neither ever did, and the colonel was certainly not going to waste his time and energy making love to beautiful women unless there was something in it for him.

They couldn't touch him because he was Tarzan, Mandrake, Flash Gordon. He was Bill Shakespeare. He was Cain, Ulysses, the Flying Dutchman; he was Lot in Sodom, Deirdre of the Sorrows, Sweeney in the nightingales among trees.