Quotes About Power

Ce n'est pas à lui qu'elle se soumet, c'est à une loi indiscutable, universelle, celle d'une sauvagerie masculine qu'un jour ou l'autre il lui aurait bien fallu subir. Que cette loi soit brutale et sale, c'est ainsi.

Det er ikke lenger meg, og heller ikke Annie D, som står i sentrum. Det som finner sted i korridoren i feriekolonien, forandrer seg til en situasjon dypt forankret i uminnelige tider og kjent overalt på jorden. Hver dag og alle steder i hele verden finnes det menn som står i en sirkel rundt en kvinne, rede til å kaste stein på henne.

Ils se sentaient toutefois le droit de faire la leçon aux imprévoyants ou de menacer l'enfant que sa mère envoyait exprès aux courses à sa place en fin de semaine, sans argent : « Dis à ta mère qu'elle tâche de me payer, sinon je ne la servirai plus. » Ils ne sont plus ici du bord le plus humilié.

Les filles comme moi gâchaient la journée des médecins. Sans argent et sans relations -- sinon elles ne seraient pas venue échouer à l'aveuglette chez eux --, elles les obligeaient à se rappeler la loi quoi pouvait les envoyer en prison et leur interdire d'exercer pour toujours.

Est-ce que le prince Charles était réel pour moi ? Dîner royal, musique. Je pensais que cette « entente cordiale » du vieux monde serait peut-être un jour balayée par d'autres forces. Je songeais à l'URSS, à la Chine. Peut-être étions-nous semblables hier soir à ces gens de 1913 ou de 1938, dans ces mêmes salons dorés.

9 heures. Encore une journée à vivre, blanche, et tout cela est ma faute, puisque je n'ai pas eu la force de casser à temps, que j'ai accepté l'absolu « droit du maître » (il vient quand il veut, téléphone idem) et qu'il n'y a pas de bonheur, in fine, dans l'oppression.

Ella no se somete a él, sino a una ley indiscutible, universal, la de la brutalidad masculina que, de todas todas, tarde o temprano, le habría tocado sufrir. Que la ley en cuestión sea feroz y sucia, es así y no hay vuelta de hoja.

Teaching man his relatively small sphere in the creation, it also encourages him by its lessons of the unity of Nature and shows him that his power of comprehension allies him with the great intelligence over-reaching all.

Nature is so powerful, so strong. Capturing its essence is not easy - your work becomes a dance with light and the weather. It takes you to a place within yourself.

You think you're safe. Until you see a picture like that. And then you know you'll always be a slave to the present because the present is more powerful than the past, no matter how long ago the present happened.

My first advantage: I have everything. My second advantage: this is just another island. My third advantage: I am bigger than it all.

Sometimes we get locked into a program and it becomes our habitual way of interacting with the world around us. The man who sees every situation as a challenge to his power orients from his third chakra.

Our culture, so proud of its mind-over-matter philosophy, cuts us off from our bodily experience and from the earth itself. In this severance, our sexuality is negated, our senses assaulted, our environment abused, and our power manipulated. Our ground is our form, and without it we lose our individuality.

Give up being safe and your power chakra will awaken more quickly.

Issues of power, control, energy fuels, and political strength have become key themes in our current events. We have come a long way from iron spearheads to nuclear warheads, yet the disease of power used for control and domination has remained.

The shadow side of this exposure is that, at least in the West, any cultural meme that gets seized by the collective consciousness runs the risk of trivialization, thus diluting its power.

Faith is like electricity. You can't see it, but you can see the light.

When E. F. Hutton talks, people listen.

Thus ever to tyrants.

Divide and rule.

When men hold the greater majority of all professional positions of power, it is impossible for a woman to advance her career without the support of men.

Judges wear legal professionalism and precedent as a mantel that secures legitimacy for their decisions. It's how they distinguish themselves from politicians or administrative agencies, while wielding power that is sometimes much greater than those democratically accountable actors.

We need an NHS with fewer managers, fewer contractors and more power (rather than choice) to patients - with the input of the real experts: healthcare professionals.

I'm looking like Atlas, not Professor Klump.