Quotes About Power

Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I: But when the trees bow down their head, The wind is passing by.

Okay, let's get something straight here, shall we? You're not my lord. I'm not your subject. Furthermore, I'm not gonna kiss your king-sized ass and you better just get used to it. Cathy, on the other hand, is my client and I intend to get her a fair settlement.

Let us kill all the lawyers!

Man's discovery that his genitalia could serve as a weapon to generate fear must rank as one of the most important discoveries of prehistoric times along with the use of fire and the first crude stone axe," concluded the American writer Susan Brownmiller in her groundbreaking account of rape, Against Our Will, published in 1975

All the air power in the world was of little use when what they were really fighting was an ideology, not a conventional army. Our

subjugating opponents, what the Romans termed Vae victis (Woe to the conquered).

Rape is as much of a weapon of war as the machete, club, or Kalashnikov.

He took me in his strong white arms, He bore me on his horse away O'er crag, morass, and hairbreadth pass, But never asked me yea or nay. He held me fast with book and bell, With links of love he makes me stay; Till now I've neither heart nor power Nor will nor wish to say him nay.

Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I. But when the trees bow down their heads, The wind is passing by.

Henny "was one of those women who secretly symphathize with all women against all men; life was a rotten deal, with men holding all the aces.

There were torments in the Himalayas, windspouts in the Grand Canyon, and Judges of the Supreme Court got into sacred rages. What could little boys do, too, about differences between their hearthstones, Mother and Father?

For a moment, after years of scamping, she felt the dread power of wifehood; they were locked in each other's grasp till the end—the end, a mouthful of sunless muckworms and grass roots stifling his blare of trumpets and her blasphemies against love.

Men call it the tyranny of tears, it is an iron tyranny—no man could be so cruel, so devilish, as a woman with her weakness, recrimination, convenient ailments, nerves, and tears. We men are all weak as water before the primitive devices of Eve.

Laura explained that her mother "went on tirades." Something could set her off and she would whirl around the house like a cyclone. The warning signal was "the look." The look was a piercing, threatening glare that meant "I could kill you." When Laura was a child, her mother actually said it, with no awareness of the power of her words.

If left unattended by nonvigilant citizens, the freedoms of democracy can be lost to an all-powerful state, and citizens can become transformed into subjects of the government they failed to keep in check.

Le grand danger qui guette la lutte des femmes aujourd'hui est celui-ci : que l'en deça de la question féministe soit présenté et vécu, comme son au-delà, permettant ou visant à permettre, l'économie...de la lutte tout simplement.

La psychanalyse et la sociologie ne prennent pas en compte l'oppression des femmes. Ne la prenant pas en compte, elles la reprennent nécessairement à leur compte : elles l'intègrent comme un donné.

Alors que le salarié dépend du marché (d'un nombre théoriquement illimité d'employeurs), la femme mariée dépend d'un individu. Alors que le salarié vend sa force de travail, la femme mariée la donne : exclusivité et gratuité sont intimement liées.

Le sexe est simplement un marqueur de la division sociale [hiérarchique de genre] ; il sert à reconnaître et identifier les dominants des dominé[e]s

Le mystère de l'Autre se trouve résolu. L'Autre c'est celui que l'Un désigne comme tel. L'Un c'est celui qui a le pouvoir de distinguer, de dire qui est qui : qui est « Un », faisant partie du « Nous », et qui est « Autre » et n'en fait pas partie ; celui qui a le pouvoir de cataloguer, de classer, bref de nommer. (p. 19)

Gjuha është një putanë, me të cilën kushdo mund të abuzojë si të ketë dëshirë.

An expectation is defined as "an eager anticipation for something to happen." A goal is defined as "a purpose or objective." When we are clinging to expectations, we are waiting for something to happen and giving our power away.

How strange it seemed to me that the whole answer might lie in the particular combination of atoms contained in those tiny, aspirin-like tablets. As recently as a few years before, science had split some of those atoms and unleashed a giant force. There in my hand lay another series of atoms, which in their way might set off another explosion--one I hoped would not be a destructive force but would help to make me a whole person.

In the meantime, the works of Gordon, Lupyan, and others suggests that words are not just convenient labels for things; rather, they are extremely powerful mental devices.