Quotes About Power

These people are very unskilled in arms... with 50 men they could all be subjected and made to do all that one wished.

And they know neither sect nor idolatry, with the exception that all believe that the source of all power and goodness is in the sky, and they believe very firmly that I, with these ships and people, came from the sky, and in this belief they everywhere received me, after they had overcome their fear.

No political system or economic order can ever be regarded as the full, or even as an adequate, realization of justice. All human social structures and centers of power are denied ultimate significance. Every human attempt to create justice, when measured against the perfect justice of God's coming kingdom, is inescapably partial and limited.

Justice is not a static ideal; it is not the maintenance of some steady state in society. The accent in biblical justice falls on positive action, the exercising of power to resist the oppressor and set the oppressed free. This is why Amos pictures justice as a thundering river that than as in the Western tradition, a neatly balanced set of scales [Amos 5:21-24].

If we don't have a plausible plan for making revolution we can be sure that there will be somebody else there who will.

A revolution is a struggle for power and is inevitably a messy affair. If we are not prepared for the fact that future revolutionary situations are going to present us with unpleasant choices then we are not really interested in making revolution.

Every revolution arises from the failure of a particular state in a particular moment. In Spain the Republican government crumbled in the wake of Franco's military revolt. Power was lying in the street, and the anarchist movement, the most powerful force among the workers and peasants, took it.

He ran Iran, which is a big and complicated country, wearing a pair of pyjamas.

The future is a fight against a model of reality that is a monopoly, controlled by the powerful and formidably defended against dissent.

Love and hope are infinitely more powerful than hate and fury.

In a political system where nearly every adult may vote but where knowledge, wealth, social position, access to officials, and other resources are unequally distributed, who actually governs? —ROBERT A. DAHL, Who Governs?

Two trends are primarily responsible for today's hyperconcentration of wealth inAmerica— the collective decisions over time by America's corporate power elite to take a far bigger share of business earnings for themselves, and the increasingly pro-rich, pro-business policy tilt in Washington since the late 1970s.

sincerely believe, with you, that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.… —THOMAS JEFFERSON, letter to a friend, 1816

Mr. DeMille's theory of sexual difference was that marriage is an artificial state for women. The want to be taken, ruled, raped. That was his theory.

Olen tullut tutuksi suuremman pedon kanssa kuin maailma, huoneessani se odottaa kaikki kaksitoista silmää auki. Kun lähestyn sitä se nousee levitoimaan kun käännän sille selkäni sen käpälät ovat kaulallani.

Mom's got this secret fear that if you don't control your life, if you don't control your man, he will eventually destroy you.

J'aimerais que mon père ait été un requin Qui eût déchiré quarante baleiniers (Et dans leur sang j'aurais appris à nager)

Si sa infatti che il vero bisogno, quando lo si avverta nella voce, quando lo si legga sul volto, ha il potere di chiudere le borse.

Everything bad comes from those resounding voices; those resounding voices started the war, and those resounding voices regulate the worst war of all, the war at railway stations. To hell with all resounding voices!

Feelings can even kill such good hard things as love and hate.

GörünüÅŸte laf olsun diye söylenmiÅŸ baz? sözler birdenbire hileli bir havaya bürünür. A??rla??p tuhaf bir ÅŸekilde h?z alarak gelecek zaman?n herhangi bir bölümünde bir yer açmak üzere, konuÅŸandan öne geçer, hedefini kesinlikle bulan bir bumerang gibi korkunç, konuÅŸana geri döner yine.

Feelings can kill such good hard things as love and hate.

Natural Magick therefore is that, which considering well the strength and force of Natural and Celestial beings, and with great curiosity labouring to discover their affections, produces into open Act the hidden and concealed powers of Nature.

Natural Magick is taken to be nothing else, but the chief power of all the natural Sciences; which therefore they call the top and perfection of Natural Philosophy, and which is indeed the active part of the same; which by the assistance of natural forces and faculties, through their mutual & opportune application, performs those things that are above Human Reason.