Quotes About Power

The river loved to tell everybody (everybody being the sky, the wind, the few trees that grew around there, birds, deer and even the stars if you can believe that) what a great river it was. I come roaring from the earth and return roaring to the earth. I am the master of my waters. I am the mother and father of myself. I don't need a single drop of rain. Look at my smooth strong white muscles. I am my own future!

To pity, without the power to relieve, is still more painful than to ask and be denied.

Success originates in the mind and translates into the material world.

El ahora es lo único que tenemos, y el único tiempo sobre el que tenemos algún control.

At present, Keynes said in 1926, everything is politics, and nothing policies.

American political opportunities are loaded against those who are simultaneously intelligent and honest.

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

We have the power to defy the selfish genes of our birth and, if necessary, the selfish memes of our indoctrination. . . . We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.

With only a little imagination we can see the gene as sitting at the centre of a radiating web of extended phenotypic power.

Words are our servants, not our masters.

We are built as gene machines and cultured as meme machines, but we have the power to turn against our creators. We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.* 12

Pat Robertson would be harmless comedy, were he less typical of those who today hold power and influence in the United States.

we have all been guilty of bending over backwards to be nice to an unworthy but powerful opponent

Sözcükler bizim hizmetkârlar?m?zd?r, efendilerimiz deÄŸil.

We have the power to defy the selfish genes of our birth and, if necessary, the selfish memes of our indoctrination.

We are built as gene machines and cultured as meme machines, but we have the power to turn against our creators. We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.

We can even discuss ways of deliberately cultivating and nurturing pure, disinterested altruism—something that has no place in nature, something that has never existed before in the whole history of the world. We are built as gene machines and cultured as meme machines, but we have the power to turn against our creators. We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.*

There is in every village a torch – the teacher: and an extinguisher – the clergyman. VICTOR HUGO

The integrated multicellular organism is a phenomenon which has emerged as a result of natural selection on primitively independent selfish replicators. It has paid replicators to behave gregariously. The phenotypic power by which they ensure their survival is in principle extended and unbounded. In practice the organism has arisen as a partially bounded local concentration, a shared knot of replicator power.

James Dobson, founder of today's infamous 'Focus on the Family' movement,fn1 is equally acquainted with the principle: 'Those who control what young people are taught, and what they experience – what they see, hear, think, and believe – will determine the future course for the nation.'78

Voltaire got it right long ago: 'Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

Maybe the psychological reason for this amazing blindness has something to do with the fact that many people have not had their consciousness raised, as biologists have, by natural selection and its power to tame improbability. J.

Religion, as ever, is the trump card. Imagine members of an art appreciation society pleading in court that they 'believe' they need a hallucinogenic drug in order to enhance their understanding of Impressionist or Surrealist paintings. Yet, when a church claims an equivalent need, it is backed by the highest court in the land. Such is the power of religion as a talisman.

Those who control what young people are taught, and what they experience – what they see, hear, think, and believe – will determine the future course for the nation.