Quotes About Power

Our society respects power, not excellence or integrity. Power-driven systems resemble the jungle. The

If we are lucky enough to have good leaders at the top, change will happen quickly. Unfortunately

How can god give girls so much power? How can they turn productive, busy and ambitious men into a wilting mass of uselessness.

Corruption is worse than terrorism. Terrorists blow up existing infrastructure such as roads, airports and power plants. Corruption prevents such infrastructure from being created in the first place. Terrorists take innocent lives. Corrupt politicians prevent hospitals from being built, which means that innocent lives

We may want political leaders to not abuse power, but do so ourselves.

as with money in your wallet the world gives you some respect and lets you breathe.

The system we have, in which there are a few kings and lots of common people, cannot generate wealth. It

Take/Throw a Punch

Hungarian...) the only tongue the devil respects.

With few words one can speak the truth.

Idiocy flows uphill towards power.

An energy crisis will never stop motor-mouths.

Let papers speak and beards be silent.

I sometimes marvel at the extraordinary docility with which Americans submit to speeches.

The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly & desperately drunk with a certain belief; it agitates & tears him, & almost bereaves him of the power of articulation.

We are merely the stars' tennis-balls, struck and banded Which way please them...

DULLARD, n. A member of the reigning dynasty in letters and life... The secret of their power is their insensibility to blows; tickle them with a bludgeon and they laugh with a platitude... According to the most trustworthy statistics the number of adult Dullards in the United States is but little short of thirty millions, including the statisticians.

Storms... surging, raging... calling all our cells to attention — roaring, wailing unabashedly smashing...

Those who tell the stories rule the world.

Word is a four-letter word.

Tetragram is a four-letter word.

IRS: We've got what it takes to take what you've got.

A snowflake is one of God's most fragile creations, but look what they can do when they stick together!

The greatest task before civilisation at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men; and if civilisation fails at the task, then without doubt it and its makers will go down to a common destruction.