Quotes About Power

Just because the power is out doesn't mean we unplug the constitution.

For all their strength, men were sometimes like little children.

This is not just primitive rural superstition; [juju] is practiced by all kinds of people, from illiterate herd boys to multi-dregreed university professors. If you don't understand the power of this belief, you will never truly grasp the rich albeit often incomprehensible spirituality of Africa.

Sometimes it's a dog-eat-dog world and the rest of the time it's the other way around.

Sometimes it's a dog-eat-dog world and the rest of the time it's the other way around.

Place has ceased to be of importance now that power no longer lives at a fixed address. ... Power's location is less important than its velocity through temporary obstacles. The speed of a tank ramming through the baricade of history.

Money is the seal and stamp of success.

That's just what a woman is. She thinks she knows what's good for a man, and she's going to see he gets it; and no matter if he's starving, he may sit and whistle for what he needs, while she's got him, and is giving him what's good for him.

Our Constitution does not secure the peaceful transition of power, but rather presupposes it.

I felt once more the strange equivocal power of the city—its flat alluvial landscape and exhausted airs… Alexandria; which is neither Greek, Syrian nor Egyptian, but a hybrid: a joint.

No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat.

Paper may burn but words will escape.

Alcohol kills: Take LSD THE YOUNG MAKE LOVE, THE OLD MAKE OBSCENE GESTURES I'M A GROUCHO MARXIST "Revolution is the ecstasy of history" MAKE LOVE AND BEGIN AGAIN POWER TO THE IMAGINATION! "Nous sommes tous les enragés"—Ortega y Gasset TO FORBID IS FORBIDDEN Open the Windows of Your Heart MAKE LOVE NOT WAR THE SORBONNE IS THE STALINGRAD OF THE REVOLUTION!

The point at which God asserted his greatness to his chosen people was when he arranged the escape of the Jews from Egypt, where they were kept as slaves. One reading of the story of Exodus is that it was not so much about freeing the Israelites from slavery as about asserting God's greatness by establishing a people beholden to him and ensuring that they—and others—were in awe of his power. Under this interpretation, the Exodus story becomes a gigantic manipulation.

It is as well to avoid illusions of control, but in the end all we can do is act as if we can influence events. To do otherwise is to succumb to fatalism.

El poder para hacer daño es poder para negociar. La capacidad para explotarlo se llama diplomacia, una diplomacia perversa, pero diplomacia».

Maquiavelo—, representados en la fuerza y la astucia.

El deseo es una acémila. Si la monta Dios, avanza y camina como Dios quiere; si la monta el diablo, avanza y camina como quiere el diablo. No puede elegir quién la monta (...) y los caballeros luchan por montarla. Lutero

Cuando se podía establecer una conexión inmediata entre el jefe del Estado y el sargento más novato de la línea del frente, las decisiones meditadas de toda la cadena de mando podían evaporarse por unas cuantas frases imprudentes y torpes.

Although 'Machiavellian' has become synonymous with strategies based on deceit and manipulation, Machiavelli's approach was actually far more balanced. He understood that the more the prince was perceived to rely on devious methods, the less likely it would be that they succeeded. The wise strategist would seek to develop a foundation for the exercise of power that went beyond false impressions and harsh punishments, and onto real accomplishments and general respect.

cómo lidiar con enemigos que son más fuertes que tú.

Mejor reinar en el infierno que ser esclavos en el Cielo!».

el peligro del «amable robot», una criatura nacida en la sociedad de masas con la ilusión de la libertad, pero incapaz de influir en nada en las grandes estructuras del poder. «Entre la escasa conciencia del hombre y los temas de nuestro tiempo, parece existir un velo de indiferencia. Su voluntad parece anestesiada; su vitalidad, encogida».

La pretensión de conseguir un poder relativo», apuntaba Timothy Crawford, «se relaciona más con la tarea de restar y dividir que con la de añadir y multiplicar».