Quotes About Power

But then I grew up, experienced some life, and I understood that when you merely switch from being a prisoner to being a guard, no one is freed, not even yourself.

why worry about the monster beneath the bed when a very real bogeyman sleeps on top of it?

Whomever speaks first gives up some power.

A child's bonds with his or her mother are extremely powerful, so any negativity in the mother is being communicated to the child.

Bad people don't want to deal with the powerful. They prey on the weak.

Devouring lives by the dozen, from the innocent to the not-so-innocent. It hardly mattered to him. He took, because destroying others was the only time he wasn't afraid.

COURTHOUSES WERE THEIR own special kind of madness.

I'm convinced these are the moments that ultimately make us or break us. Like a wave lapping against the same boulder day after day, eroding the stone, shaping the line of the shore, the ordinary minutia of our lives holds the real power, and thus all the hidden danger. The daily things we do, or don't do, without ever understanding the long-term ramification of such minor acts.

I've held a beating pulse between my fingers and I've squeezed. And it's the best goddamn feeling in the world. DIFFORD:

Man can progress as much as we want. Mother Nature still owns our ass.

Force is the midwife of every old society pregnant with a new one.

There were millions of such families anxious only for peace and quiet in their own little nests. These were the mounting blocks by which the criminals climbed to power and kept it.

Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime.

Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.

We must recognize that we can't solve our problems now until there is a radical redistribution of economic and political power.... a radical restructuring of the architecture of American society.

It is of great importance in a republic, not only to guard the society against the oppression of its rulers; but to guard one part of the society against the injustice of the other part.

Politics is the gizzard of society, full of gut and gravel.

I would sooner live in a society governed by the first two thousand names in the Boston telephone directory than in a society governed by the two thousand faculty members of Harvard University.

We cannot have a just society that applies the principle of accountability to the powerless and the principle of forgiveness to the powerful. This is the America in which we currently reside.

The very mudsills of society. We call them slaves. But I will not characterize that class at the North with that term; but you have it. It is there, it is everywhere, it is eternal.

The coercive power of government is always a beacon to those who want to dominate others -- summoning the worst dregs of society to Washington to use that power to impose their will upon others.

Society is a madhouse whose wardens are the officials and the police.

To be wealthy and honored in an unjust society is a disgrace.

All of us who professionally use the mass media are the shapers of society. We can vulgarise that society. We can brutalise it. Or we can help lift it onto a higher level.