Quotes About Power

I say to the Taliban: surrender the terrorists or surrender power. It's your choice.

The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes.

The first rule in politics is that there are no rules, at least not in the sense of inevitable defeats or inevitable victories. If you have the right policy and the right strategy, you always have a chance of winning. Without them, you can lose no matter how certain the victory seems.

The pen is mightier than the sword" only if the brain behind it knows how to wield the word!' Tony Buzan

Religion, for better or for worse, has been politicized in blatant ways that have seldom been equaled in American elections.

achieved by the Roman

Strength is not just in muscle and bone," Rovender said "That is right," Soth added. "Emotional strength is more powerful.

Whole villages of Muslims had been hacked to pieces by drunken Christian youth, and as foreigners, we should have been pulled out by the organization. But the U.S. government supported the Christian tribes, just as the French had all through the colonial days, and to pull us out would have meant admitting that things weren't as stable for their puppet government as the western companies, trading in Ivory Coast for cocoa, rubber, and timber, and selling Coke and cigarettes, wanted to hear.

Always good to have slept with at least one person on any committee on which one sits. It's the British way.

Know that it is hard for the people to trust outside their own family. Even harder when they are sick. They have pain. They are out of harmony. They see no beauty anywhere. All their connections are broken. That is who you are talking to. You tell them the Power that made us made all this above us and around us and we are part of the Power and if we do as we are taught we can bring ourselves back into hozho. Back into harmony. Then they will again know beauty all around them.

The way he understood hozho was hard to put into words. "I'll use an example. Terrible drought, crops dead, sheep dying. Spring dried out. No water. The Hopi, or the Christian, maybe the Moslem, they pray for rain. The Navajo has the proper ceremony done to restore himself to harmony with the drought. You see what I mean. The system is designed to recognize what's beyond human power to change, and then to change the human's attitude to be content with the inevitable.

They get caught up in the Washington competition, where knowledge is power. That gets them obsessed with secrecy.

Terrible drought, crops dead, sheep dying. Spring dried up. No water. The Hopi, and the Christian, maybe the Moslem, they pray for rain. The Navajo has the proper ceremony done to restore himself to harmony with the drought. You see what I mean. The system is designed to recognize what's beyond human power to change, and then to change the human's attitude to be content with the inevitable." - Tony Hillerman, Sacred Clowns, 1993

knowledge is power, and action is results.

God's power, it turns out, comes in God's willingness to abdicate power. God saves the world through submission to the point of solidarity with human weakness. Jesus' final teaching to his disciples was to wash their feet and then tell them to go and do likewise, to act as servants to the world. Too often, Christians have done just the opposite.

ask . . . what it is about all-embracing 'systems' of thought that leads inexorably to all-embracing 'systems' of rule.

Lawyers are… the High Priests of America.

I feel there's a power in theatre, but it's an indirect power. It's like the relationship of the sleeper to the unconscious. You discover things you can't afford to countenance in waking life. You can forget them, remember them a day later or not have any idea what they are about.

I think, if you touch me, your hand might fall off or something. Worse things have happened to people who have touched me.

The white cracker who wrote the National Anthem knew what he was doing. He set the word "free" to a note so high nobody can reach it.

Lincoln in his element

The white cracker who wrote the National Anthem knew what he was doing. He set the word "free" to a note so high nobody could reach it. That was deliberate.

The gospel comes to the world not like an aircraft seeking an existing landing strip but like a bomb, which creates its own crater when it arrives.

It's a depressingly masculine world we live in, Dolores.