Quotes About Power

History reports that the men who can manage men manage the men who can manage only things, and the men who can manage money manage all.

you can't fool all the people all the time," but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.

supported by a powerful professional culture. We know that people can maintain an unshakable faith in any proposition, however absurd, when they are sustained by a community of like-minded believers. Given

Merely reminding people of a time when they had power increases their apparent trust in their own intuition.

A basic rule of fairness, we found, is that the exploitation of market power to impose losses on others is unacceptable. The

The halo effect adds the final touches, lending an aura of invincibility to the heroes of the story.

defining risk is thus an exercise in power.

It is no accident that authoritarian regimes exert substantial pressure on independent media.

The increase in man's power over his environment has not been accompanied by a concomitant improvement of his ability to make rational use of that power

What should he do if word went around that in his throne room hung a magic picture that only the highborn could see, but he couldn't? Of course there was no picture there, it had been one of the fool's jokes, but now that the canvas hung there, it had developed its own power.

The Crystal Wind is the Storm, and the Storm is Data, and the Data is Life.

The light of revelation does not descend on us perpendicularly from above; it comes through worldly media by the power of God's Spirit, who enlists our participation in the process of responsible interpretation and critical appropriation.

Part of the myth of Persian benevolence is the idea of an end to the exile in 539. But all that was ended was Neo-Babylonian hegemony, to be replaced by that of the Persians. (p. 65)

We must keep in mind Edward Said's important warning that the first reality for thinking creatively (and for us, theologically) about exile is that it is a form of disaster and trauma that is inseparably connected to human actions related to power, dominance, and brutality: 'To think of exile as beneficial, as a spur to humanism or to creativity, is to belittle its mutliations.' (p. 21)

The fact is that human beings come into the world with a passion for control, they go out of the world the same way, and research suggests that if they lose their ability to control things at any point between their entrance and their exit, they become unhappy, helpless, hopeless, and depressed.40 And occasionally dead.

Given the nearly unrestricted power of lawmaking and taxation, they ensure that actual dissent is nearly nonexistent. Every citizen has become a federal lawbreaker and we are suffocated under a tax code that few have actually read and no one fully understands. Like the Sword of Damocles, federal retribution hangs over the heads of everyone, waiting to impale anyone who steps out of line.

índios" foram, na verdade, uma invenção dos colonizadores a fim de reduzi-los e escravizá-los.

Índios' foram, na verdade, uma invenção dos colonizadores a fim de reduzi-los e escravizá-los. [...] Ao reduzi-los, dominaram; ao dominá-los, enfraqueceram valentes civilizações. Tudo isso contido em uma única palavra: índio.

The body immediately confers perfection, that is, certainty with regard to the true nature of things . . . thanks to the contact with the power of the Self," says Abhinavagupta.

Each day, according to your sensitivity and your mood, choose to enter into total communication with the objects of your desire or, more simply, with the states that spontaneously present themselves and that harbor the power to bring you a kind of satisfaction you no doubt underestimate

With that single previous exception, the original Constitution and its first seventeen amendments limited the activities of government, not of citizens. Now there were two exceptions: you couldn't

his association with the Rockefellers had inflated his already healthy sense of self to a point of bloated grandiosity, and

The people went mad over these big games and didn't care if Caesar became dictator or not as long as he kept them amused. But

Unfortunately, some leaders use their power to instill fear in employees.