Quotes About Power

What happens between bodies during an insurrection is more interesting than the insurrection itself.

was one of those. If you follow their rules, they make more rules. You have to fight people or you end up with nothing.

If you stayed there, sooner or later you were going to be visited at night by Russ, who was old, and muscular, and mean. The girls complained about being raped by him as if it were a form of strictness, or rent. They were willing to endure it because they didn't have other options. The rest of us did nothing about it because Russ bought us liquor and what were we to do, call the police? One of them was known for taking girls out to Point Lobos instead of to the police station.

The three passions," Stanley had said to me that morning, "are love, hate, and ignorance. Ignorance is the strongest.

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Military preparedness is absolutely a form of strength.

We can all influence the life force. The tools and strategies of healing are so innate, so much a part of a common human birthright, that we believers in technology pay very little attention to them. But they have lost none of their power.

He determines the course of world events; he removes kings and sets others on the throne.

Love is infinitely more powerful than hate,

Magic finds a way, warrior.

Love doesn't die. No matter how many bullets you put in it. It breathes on it's own without oxygen, without need for anything else. It exists, swirling in it's own form of gravity, ready whenever you are to be consumed by it.

Come on Josie." He leaned closer and whispered in my ear, "I really want you there." "Yeah?" I asked, slamming my locker shut. "And do you always get what you want?" "Yes," he said.

Bloody Mike Tyson'd have trouble with you.

Yes, that's why I'm so frightened, you make me feel strong—

No despreciéis el poder de la fealdad, porque es la puerta de la estupidez y ésta lo es a su vez de la maldad

It is the day of the Dantons, and the Marats, the day of the rabble. The reins of government will be tossed to the populace, or else the populace, drunk with the conceit with which the Dantons and the Marats have filled it, will seize the reins by force. Chaos must follow, and a despotism of brutes and apes, a government of the whole by its lowest parts. It cannot endure, because unless a nation is ruled by its best elements it must wither and decay.

At least you will admit—you have, in fact, admitted it—that we could not be worse governed than we are?" "That is not the point. The point is should we be better governed if we replaced the present ruling class by another? Without some guarantee of that I should be the last to lift a finger to effect a change. And what guarantees can you give?

The money-changers in Paris who hold the bonds in the national debt, seeing the parlous financial condition of the State, tremble at the thought that it may lie in the power of a single man to cancel the debt by bankruptcy. To secure themselves they are burrowing underground to overthrow a state and build upon its ruins a new one in which they shall be the masters. And to accomplish this they inflame the people.

In doing this they are striking at the very foundations of the throne. These fools do not perceive that if that throne falls over, it is they who stand nearest to it who will be crushed.

Maybe becoming a monster is a sign of strength.

Never underestimate some one who is below your balls, because they can kick your balls and throw them out of your throat.

When Emperor Shun died in 144, the government came into the hands of his widowed Empress Liang, now regent Dowager, and her brother Liang Ji. The emperor's only son died in infancy a few months after his father's death, and in such circumstances the Dowager had absolute right to choose any male of the imperial clan for the succession. The Dowager and her brother selected the seven-year-old Liu Zuan, but after he showed signs of resenting their control he became ill and died.

Nationalism, coupled with great faith in the power of the government to enact domestic bargains between labor and capital, has been seen before: it was called fascism then.

Government, even in a democracy, can be captured by a small, well-organized class that has little interest in seeing broad-based access to finance.