Quotes About Power

God grant me the confidence of a mediocre white man.

As perhaps the Russians would tell us, 'When money speaks, the truth keeps silent.

And less dangerous, because if a man rejects a woman, she goes home and cries for a few days. If a woman rejects a man, he can rape and kill her.

He narrows your life. That's what men like Nick do. They pull you away from everything you love so that they are the only thing you focus on." Laura felt the need to add, "If you let them.

They can't walk down the street or order a coffee or stand on a corner without some idiot making a comment about how attractive they are. And then woman smile because it's easier than telling them to go fuck themselves. And less dangerous, because if a man rejects a woman, she goes home and cries for a few days. If a woman rejects a man, he can rape and kill her.

the irreconcilable antitheses of death and life, the world and the kingdom of heaven, and then again to see them both as one, before he can evaluate the concealed power of this unique spirit. For 'this was a man and to be a man means to be a fighter'.

Hitlerovo jednání bylo od po?átku zam??eno proti jakékoli možnosti smíÃ…â"¢ení. Existovalo jen vítÄ›zství, nebo zkáza.

Právo máme ve skute?nosti jen tehdy, máme-li zárove? moc za nÄ› bojovat. Tam, kde je naprostá bezmocnost, je pouze možnost na ideální právo duchovnÄ› apelovat.

Ale dnes svatozáÃ…â"¢ kolem hlav stát? zmizela. Jsou to lidé a jsou odpovÄ›dni za své ?iny. Od té doby, co evropské národy za?aly stavÄ›t své monarchy pÃ…â"¢ed soud a stínat jim hlavy, je úkolem národ? kontrolovat své v?dce. Státní akty jsou zárove? osobní akty. Odpovídají za nÄ› lidé jako jednotlivci.

The battle is a collision of power, of gods themselves: man is only a pawn in these terrible games, or their scene, or their medium; but man's greatness consists precisely in his act of becoming such medium. By this act he becomes imbued with a soul and identical with the powers.

We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror.

The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.

Capital is dead labour, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labour, and lives the more, the more labour it sucks.

Political power, properly so called, is merely the organised power of one class for oppressing another.

it is all the more clear what we have to accomplish at present: I am referring to ruthless criticism of all that exists, ruthless both in the sense of not being afraid of the results it arrives at and in the sense of being just as little afraid of conflict with the powers that be.

Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past. The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living.

Religion is the opiate of the masses.

The weapon of criticism obviously cannot replace the criticism of weapons. Material force must be overthrown by material force. But theory also becomes a material force once it has gripped the masses.

The windmill gives you society with the feudal lord; the steam mill, society with the industrial capitalist

They are my slaves [ books and papers ] and they must serve me as I please.

The true law of economics is chance, and we learned people arbitrarily seize on a few moments and establish them as laws.

Communism deprives no man of the power to appropriate the products of society; all that it does is to deprive him of the power to subjugate the labour of others by means of such appropriation.

Thus, in imagination, individuals seem freer under the dominance of the bourgeoisie than before, because their conditions of life seem accidental; in reality, of course, they are less free, because they are to a greater extent governed by material forces.

Illi unum consilium habent et virtutem et potestatem suam bestiae tradunt. Et ne quis possit emere aut vendere, nisi qui habet characterem aut nomen bestiae aut numerum nominis ejus.