Quotes About Power

certain kinds of polities, communist party-states such as the Soviet Union, the People's Republic of China, and Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, are capable, in times of peace, of killing large numbers of their own citizens as a matter of deliberate policy.

When the Holocaust is blamed on the modern state, the weakening of state authority appears salutary.

On the political Right, the erosion of state power by international capitalism seems natural; on the political Left, rudderless revolutions portray themselves as virtuous. In the twenty-first century, anarchical protest movements join in a friendly tussle with global oligarchy, in which neither side can be hurt since both see the real enemy as the state.

The greater and the more obvious the lie, the more his subjects demonstrate their loyalty by accepting it, and the more they participate in the great sacral mystery of Kremlin p

An eternity politician defines foes rather than formulating policies.

This unprecedented mass murder would have been impossible without a special kind of politics. —

An important sign of the collapse of the rule of law is the rise of a paramilitary and its merger with government power.

If you don't want to be noticed, you don't use a Star Destroyer.

Multiple species, with multiple viewpoints and racial philosophies, simply cannot hold power together for long. The dominant voice must certainly be wise enough to adopt ideas and methods from its allies and member peoples. But there must be a dominant voice, or there is only chaos. In this part of the galaxy, that voice is the Empire." -Thrawn

My mother was a mother of mothers, modern before she was ancestral. She was a woman who morphed into feline, back to her human self before I woke each morning.

At the end of the play, the shrew is tamed (...). All good fun. Under the guise of comedy, the most horrible acts are perpetrated on a woman. It's a nightmare, because the sexism is so completely accepted - It is simply "the way it is". Nowhere is it questioned.

The Roman Empire, born out the Roman Republic, with its ideas of democracy among a certain group of wealthy men (no vote for men without land -as with our Founding Fathers- and certainly no vote for women and slaves. Why are democracies built on top of one form of slavery or another?)

She [Cressida] knows it is men's sexual desire that makes women "angels" before they have been able to possess them; once possessed, women are "things" [Troilus and Cressida I.2, 225-28, 233-34].

The real power behind whatever success I have now was something I found within myself - something that's in all of us, I think, a little piece of God just waiting to be discovered.

Whats the difference between a king and his horse?I dont mean some kiddy shit like one has 4 legs and the other has 2, or ones a person and ones an animal. If their form, ability, and power is exactly the same, then why is it one becomes the king and controls the battle and the other one becomes the horse and carries the king? There's only one answer...INSTINCT!!!

labor power itself is the sole commodity—the "unique commodity," as Marx calls it—that is produced outside of the circuit of commodity production

exploitation (normally tethered to class) and oppression (normally understood through gender, race, etc.)

unlike all other commodities under capitalism, the "unique" commodity labor power is singular in the sense that it is not produced capitalistically.

Si la royauté était sacrée, le roi ne l'était pas pour autant ; les hommes du Moyen Age savaient faire la distinction entre la fonction et celui qui l'exerçait.

War is just to those to whom war is necessary.

Avarice and luxury, those pests which have ever been the ruin of every great state.

E non dimenticare, straniero, che il sole sorge dalla nostra parte, che l'Est è l'Est, l'Ovest è l'Ovest e che questo non lo si può cambiare. [...] Il sole sorge da noi e noi un giorno domineremo il mondo perché abbiamo tutto quel che ci vuole per farlo. Abbiamo terra, abbiamo gente, abbiamo risorse. [...] Allora, straniero, ricordatelo: il futuro è qua!

Quando i giornali dipendono dalla pubblicità, e la pubblicità è in mano a chi ha il potere politico, come puoi essere libero? Quando i giornali sono posseduti dalle grandi aziende contro le quali non potrai mai scrivere e che hanno i loro interessi politici, come fai a fare del vero giornalismo?

Continua a dar da mangiare agli sciacalli e un giorno arriverà anche il leone», gli