Quotes About Power

Denominaremos instituciones políticas inclusivas a aquellas que están suficientemente centralizadas y que son pluralistas. Cuando falle alguna de estas condiciones, nos referiremos a ellas como instituciones políticas extractivas.

Los países fracasan cuando tienen instituciones económicas extractivas, apoyadas por instituciones políticas extractivas que impiden e incluso bloquean el crecimiento económico.

Poor countries are poor because those who have power make choices that create poverty. They get it wrong not by mistake or ignorance but on purpose. To understand this, you have to go beyond economics and expert advice on the best thing to do and, instead, study how decisions actually get made, who gets to make them, and why those people decide to do what they do. This is the study of politics and political processes.

Las instituciones económicas inclusivas exigen no solamente mercados, sino mercados inclusivos que creen unas reglas de juego más equitativas y oportunidades económicas para la mayoría de la gente. El monopolio generalizado, respaldado por el poder político de la élite, contradice esta posibilidad.

As we will show, poor countries are poor because those who have power make choices that create poverty. They get it wrong not by mistake or ignorance but on purpose.

For every elite benefiting from extraction there is a non-elite who would love to replace him.

The powerful and the rest of society will often disagree about which set of institutions should remain in place and which ones should be changed.

Creative destruction redistributes not simply income and wealth, but also political power

Unlike Iturbide, Santa Ana, and Díaz, however, none of these military men used force to get into power. Nor did they use force to avoid having to relinquish power. They abided by the Constitution.

but it also meant that there were checks within Parliament against any single group becoming too powerful and abusing its power. It was the critical factor in the emergence of pluralistic political institutions.

The reason that the economic and political trajectory of the South never changed, even though slavery was abolished and black men were given the right to vote, was because blacks' political power and economic independence were tenuous. The southern planters lost the war, but would win the peace. They were still organized and they still owned the land.

Tradicionalmente, la economía ha ignorado la política, pero la comprensión de la política resulta esencial para explicar la desigualdad del mundo.

A broad coalition meant that there would be greater demands for the creation of pluralist political institutions. Without some sort of pluralism, there would be a danger that one of the diverse interests would usurp power at the expense of the rest.

La destrucción creativa redistribuye no solamente la renta y la riqueza, sino también el poder político

Such critical junctures are important because there are formidable barriers against gradual improvements, resulting from the synergy between extractive political and economic institutions and the support they give each other. The persistence of this feedback loop creates a vicious circle. Those who benefit from the status quo are wealthy and well organized, and can effectively fight major changes that will take away their economic privileges and political power.

During critical junctures, a major event or confluence of factors disrupts the existing balance of political or economic power in a nation.

The demons were scary, but girls - Well, girls are really terrifying

To be a druid is to embrace death, dance with it a while, and finally fall prey to it. That is why we'll never rule this world. We have the power to bend all men to our whim, but are forever pushing ourselves further,trying to fly higher...and falling

In the beginning Grubbs created the heavens and the earth, and everything was dark. Then Grubbs said, 'Let there be light!'" And there was light. Coolio!

I always knew there was power in the earth, but it must be much stronger than I imagined to resist such a relentless foe, day after day, night after night, year after year.

Death is the worst this world can throw at you, Darren -- if you accept it, it has no power over you.

I bite off the fingers and spit them out. Lord Loss screams obligingly. One of the snakes digs its fangs into my bald skull and rips out a chunk of flesh. I snatch the snake from its heartless home and chew its head off. I'm starting to enjoy this biting business.

Cars frighten me. They look vicious. Growling, screeching, fast-moving assassins. -Bec

All the power in the universe means nothing if you can't be with the one you love.