Quotes About Power

Mi madre no amaba a mi padre y se lo decía. Era cruel sin dejar de ser inocente: creía en el poder misericordioso de la verdad antes que en las humillaciones de la mentira

Se ha dicho que cada gobierno tiene su capo.

But Zeca already felt something the older executives had yet to learn—that status, power, and even money are sometimes not enough to make a job interesting.

The best tycoons are like magicians: they know when to share information and when to withhold. - p141

The best tycoons are like magicians; they know when to share information and when to withhold.

Bernays set various goals: convince the American people of the Communist presence in Guatemala; convince members of Congress the issue is a winner; convince the CIA, which can actually do something on the ground, it's time to act. Bernays wouldn't make the world better for bananas, he would make the world better for American politicians, who would make the world better for the CIA, which would make the world better for bananas. Indirection.

Finally, a principal reason for the lack of attention to "unclean spirits" and Jesus' "acts of power" in the Gospel stories is surely the modern "scientific" frame of mind that developed in the wake of the Enlightenment reduction of reality to what was natural and comprehensible by reason.

The concentration of economic wealth and military power that imagines itself to be beyond challenge will inevitably end in violence toward human persons who have nothing more in their favor than their market value.

Mribus antqus rs stat Rmna virsque. (Ennius Ann. 467.)

Ille crucem sceleris pretium tulit, hic diadma.

Vestis virum facit.

Dangerous thing, a name. Someone might catch hold of you by it, mightn't they?

They're all so much afraid of the Council that they're not afraid of anything else.

Your storm, Thlayli-rah. Use it.

I distinguish two types of human beings, Love people, who love the sky and the flowers, and Power People, who are essentially sold on naked power.

I'm sick and tired of it, he said, It's the same all the time. 'These are my claws, so this is my cowslip. 'These are my teeth, so this is my burrow.' I'll tell you, if I ever get into the Owsla, I'll treat outskirters with a bit of decency.

And from that day to this, no power on earth can keep a rabbit out of a vegetable garden, for El-ahrairah prompts them with a thousand tricks, the best in the world.

You may think it's a wonderful thing to be saved by Lord Frith in his power. How many rabbits has that happened to, I wonder? But I tell you, it was far more frightening than being chased by the Efrafans.

You are never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.

You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.

Any powerful idea is absolutely fascinating and absolutely useless until we choose to use it.

You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it however.

From time to time it's fun to close our eyes, and in that dark say to ourselves, 'I am the sorcerer, and when I open my eyes I shall see a world that I have created, and for which I and only I am completely responsible.' Slowly then, eyelids open like curtains lifting stage-center. And sure enough, there's our world, just the way we've built it.

Know that ever about you stands the reality of love, and each moment you have the power to transform your world by what you have learned.