Quotes About Power

The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history.

Our founders did not oust George III in order for us to crown Richard I.

The only difference between Republicans and Democrats is the velocity at which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on the door.

The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.

Members of Congress are like the voters in one respect -- they want to go with the winners.

Young wives are the leading asset of corporate power. They want the suburbs, a house, a settled life, and respectability. They want society to see that they have exchanged themselves for something of value

A great problem of contemporary life is how to control the power of economic interests which ignore the harmful effects of their applied science and technology.

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Afghanistan is more than the "graveyard of empires." It's the mother of vicious circles. —MAUREEN DOWD

Never underestimate the power of the State to act out its own massive fantasies. —DON DELILLO

Animal Farm has seen off all the opposition. It's as valid today as it was fifty years ago.

Do not contend with God who is stronger than you are, who is able when he will (and he will one day be found both able and willing enough) to turn the wicked into hell, the element of sin and sinners, who shall go into it as into their own place, as Judas did

Obedience alone gives the right to command.

Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the understanding.

All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man

Who shall set a limit to the influence of a human being?

A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.

Difference of opinion is the one crime which kings never forgive

Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. It is to bring another out of his bad sense into your good sense.

Come, see the north-wind's masonry, Out of an unseen quarry evermore Furnished with tile, the fierce artificer Curves his white bastions with projected roof Round every windward stake, or tree, or door. Speeding, the myriad-handed, his wild work So fanciful, so savage, naught cares he For number or proportion.

Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.

Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words

Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short, in all the management of human affairs.

The flowering of civilization is the finished man, the man of sense, of grace, of accomplishment, of social power--the gentleman.