Quotes About Power

El moribundo frente marítimo al final había sucumbido al perverso huracán Yankee Clipper de 1938.

make sure we wealthy are not allowed to use our money as a tool of oppression and subversion of democracy.

I do not begrudge the average American his ignorance. It's a free country. But when you have elected officials, people who wield enormous power, who flaunt their ignorance, that is a different matter.

Information is like electricity; it powers the light that allows us to see our way forward.

If he is to know 'his' children, he must have control over their reproduction, which means he musut possess their mother exclusively...it cuts back to the male need to say: 'I, too, have the power of procreation--these are my seed, my own begotten children, my proof of elemental power.' In addition, of course, the children are the future receivers of the patrimony.

A woman in the shape of a monster a monster in the shape of a woman the skies are full of them

That light of outrage is the light of history

Poetry] is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.

The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.

we've come to understand sin as a kind of moral failing, but that interpretation actually comes from the power structures of the church and religious authorities. If you can convince somebody that they are inherently impure and that there is a mistake at the center of their being, then sin becomes a wrongdoing that deserves blame.

Seeing Jesus through the lens of the spiritual revolutionary is powerfully transformative; if we can embody that spirit within ourselves, we can begin to break down the internal walls that separate ourselves from each other, from the world, and from our own divinity.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." [John 1:1, NIV, ESV]

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Every ruler is harsh whose laws is new.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Necessity is stronger far than art.

Ah me, thou Destiny, Giver of evil gifts.

Death is preferable -- it is a milder fate than tyranny.

For there below ground sits the Dark God, strong to call men to judgment; he sees all, and writes it in his memory.

Ares ever loves to pluck all the fairest flower of an armed host.

Nought is there in wealth that serves as bulwark 'gainst the subtle stealth Of Destiny and Doom.

Words are the parents of a causeless wrath.

Woe, woe for the doom that shall be--as in grasp of the foeman they fare! For a woe and a weeping it is, if the maiden inviolate flower Is plucked by the foe in his might, not culled in the bridal bower!

And all the country echoeth with the moan, And poureth many a tear For that magnific power Of ancient days far-seen that thou didst share With those of one blood sprung; And all the mortal men who hold the plain Of holy Asia as their land of sojourn, They grieve in sympathy For thy woes lamentable.