Quotes About Power

Societies only seem stable when they are ruled over by an autocratic government.

Another plant whose incredible power to heal was confirmed by Western medicine is the Madagascar periwinkle (Catharanthus roseus)

around four main reasons for hope: the amazing human intellect, the resilience of nature, the power of youth, and the indomitable human spirit.

There are only two ultimate public powers in shaping and running American cities: votes and control of the money. To sound nicer, we may call these "public opinion" and "disbursement of funds," but they are still votes and money.

There are only two ultimate public powers in shaping and running American cities: votes and control of the money.

Naturally, in time, forceful and able men, admired administrators, having swallowed the initial fallacies and having been provisioned with tools and with public confidence, go on logically to the greatest destructive excesses, which prudence or mercy might previously have forbade.

A battle like this would be intolerable if we didn't have a good time, if we didn't have the joy of battle, if we didn't have a high old time in this fight. Never, never underestimate the power of high hearts when they're combined with principled, unyielding wills.

That such wonders may be accomplished, people who get marked with the planners' hex signs are pushed about, expropriated, and uprooted much as if they were the subjects of a conquering power.

The real jungle is in the office of the bureaucrats

If she went with him, she'd enjoy Kahil's revenge. She'd welcome the humiliation as it would be at his hands, in his hands, with his body.

Close your eyes after having read this chapter to this point, and try to sense within yourself the source of power from which your own breathing and life forces come.

vehemence, however, that she broke through the barriers

The point of power is in the present. Whenever possible, minimize the importance of a problem. Forget a problem and it will go away. Dumb advice, surely, or so it seems. Yet children know the truth of it. Minimize impediments in your mind and they do become minimized. Exaggerate impediments in your mind and in reality they will quickly adopt giant size.

The will bakes bread the nature chokes on. The nature turns the wheel the will breaks on.

Everyone starved. Starvation is a potent weapon, and the Bolsheviks are happy to wield it. The cheapest way to get rid of the opposition is to starve them. Lenin did it the expensive way, shooting them, but the Soviets can no longer afford that.

Do you think I would want to live under a government that you ran or set up? It's all very nice to say you're an anarchist, but you only want anarchy for yourself. For the rest of us, you want to make sure we do what you say, think how you think, and remember you're the boss.

What Is Really Going On in Spain? was another. Who's the Boss? was about whether members of the

Once again, the curious thing was how strange and forceful the world was, how it battered and clanged and could not be withstood, and yet some individuals withstood it while others did not.

DR. LIONEL GIFT IS in bed with Arlen Martin, billionaire, but only in the Washington, D.C., sense.

but, between you and me, being a woman is a dangerous business, and don't let anyone tell you otherwise. Oh, those men

There is no argument with fog. In it's own vague stubbornness, it wields more power than wind, rain, snow, even ice.

Why would anyone want to be God? he asked. It's a terrible occupation.

These smaller whaleboats are not powered by sails when they are on the close hunt, but by oars, which the men ply with rippling swiftness, as if they are the wind over choppy water.

A name, Mag thought, is but a tag. A man may be born with one name, achieve another. Honor and power come from the heart.