Quotes About Power

A party committed to defending the economic interests of rich elites could never win by saying so.

We didn't pass any constitutional amendments that affected the executive branch while I was governor.

It is very difficult to get legislation passed. But then the danger always is that you have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.

It's one thing to be groped and harassed by passers-by, but when the state gropes you, it gives a green light that you are fair game.

Democracy passes into despotism.

Everybody's always going to have some self-interest. When it passes a certain point, that's when it become corruption.

There are examples of fraternal dictatorships, or one, anyway: the passing of power from Fidel to Raul Castro.

America is just the country that shows how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind.

Let me say again that the relationship is asymmetrical: there's no democracy without a market economy, but you can have a market economy without democracy.

Activity becomes process. Choices become destiny. Men then live in the world they themselves have made as if they were fated to do so by powers that are quite independent of their own world-constructing enterprises.

religion has been the historically most widespread and effective instrumentality of legitimation.

To be a '"free lord" in secret is better than being a public slave

Love, then, is the binding power of being, on every level of reality. In fact, love is being and reality: love turning toward love in love with itself. Everything is on this track, and everything being/consciousness/bliss, whether it "knows" itself as such or not. But the soul which awakens and finds itself in the dance: that soul has won the bet.

And the people - confused, embittered, hungry, fearful - will bow their heads and accept the inevitable. They will trade in their freedoms forever for the promise of security today.

the Necronomicon is also a manual not only of dream interpretation (a la Freud) but of dream control.

An image, a dance step, a song may function from time to time as entertainment, but the root and full practice of the arts lies in the recognition that art is power, an instrument of communion between the self and all that is important, all that is sacred.

May we have: A heart as pure as a crystal, A mind as radiant as the sun, A soul as vast as the universe, A spirit as powerful as God and one with God.

Abstraction can be a powerful tool, but it can also lead to heads buried in the sand. In

There is a remarkably distinctive smell emitted by fearful bureaucrats. It is acrid, rank, and seems to cling to the clothing and the hair. Acting like a pheromone, it drives senior management to form small defensive herds from which to scream homicidally at middle management that they must not tell junior staff who can fix the problem what is going on because everything, including what has just been reported on the radio, is secret.

One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.

longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth: "that God governs in the affairs of man." And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid?

the group needs to readily accept the choices and the direction of the dominant members.

In other words, I like control. Not just being in control, but the awareness of control, the feel of control, and the ability to manipulate control itself.

The sun is roaring, it fills to bursting each crystal of snow. I flush with feeling, moved beyond my comprehension, and once again, the warm tears freeze upon my face. These rocks and mountains, all this matter, the snow itself, the air- the earth is ringing. All is moving, full of power, full of light.