Quotes About Power

And this I set down as a positive truth. A woman with fair opportunities, and without an absolute hump, may marry WHOM SHE LIKES. Only let us be thankful that the darlings are like the beasts of the fields, and don't know their own power. They would overcome us if they did.

A woman with fair opportunities, and without an absolute hump, may marry WHOM SHE LIKES. Only let us be thankful that the darlings are like the beasts of the field, and don't know their own power. They would overcome us entirely if they did.

When a rich man is hurt his wail goeth heavens high and none may say he heareth not.

Oh, manifold is their kindred, and who shall tell them all? There are they that rule o'er men folk, and the stars that rise and fall." Sigurd the Volsung

Not even girls want to be girls so long as our feminine archetype lacks force, strength, and power. Not wanting to be girls, they don't want to be tender, submissive, peace-loving as good women are. Women's strong qualities have become despised because of their weakness. The obvious remedy is to create a feminine character with all the strength of Superman plus all the allure of a good and beautiful woman.

As lovely as Aphrodite - as wise as Athena - with the speed of Mercury and the strength of Hercules - she is known only as Wonder Woman.

No es mi intención contar de nuevo lo que tanto se ha contado, pero no callaré que 167 españoles y un griego, armados de cañones de Augsburgo y de arcabuces de Ulm, de espadas toledanas y de dagas, vestidos de acero como sus caballos y atrincherados en la deslealtad y en el trueno, sacrificaron a siete mil incas que avanzaban cantando, vestidos en su honor con lujosos trajes ceremoniales, y los masacraron en una sola tarde en la llanura sangrienta.

pueblo no tenía poder en Colombia.

La violencia ha sido el martillo y el cincel de esta conquista, pero se llega a un punto en que ya nada puede la violencia: todo asalto despierta una avalancha, toda herida devuelve una enfermedad, todo crimen inicia una prodigiosa aniquilación, las respuestas de los dioses no se modulan con palabras comunes, y la furia de los humanos acaba por volverse contra sí misma

Pasamos por el mundo profanándolo todo hora tras hora y siempre soñando con un mundo mejor, más lleno de tributos y de esclavos. No entendemos la casa que nos dieron, creemos que vinimos a mandar, ejecutores de una ley tan ciega como nosotros mismos

is a game as ancient as recorded history. Promote a troublesome thorn up and out of the way if you cannot crush him, and then, once gone, impose whatever was planned in the first place.

That had always been the power of media in the hands of a good leader. To get individuals to feel as if the leader was speaking directly to them, Churchill in 1940, Jack Kennedy in 1962, and Reagan in the 1980s.

Machiavelli said a prince had to transcend traditional morality for the greater good of those he led.

either a terrorist cell member or the ruler of someplace like North Korea or Iran, with only one or two nukes in their possession, could level the playing field against us in spite of our thousands of weapons. That's what is meant by 'asymmetrical strike.

As Frederick the Great of Prussia is widely reputed to have said, "Diplomacy without force is like music without instruments.

The breaking of so great a thing should make A greater crack: the round world Should have shook lions into civil streets, And citizens to their dens.

The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.

Men at some time are masters of their fates. The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.

Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a Colossus; and we petty men Walk under his huge legs, and peep about To find ourselves dishonourable graves.

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Women may fall when there's no strength in men. Act II

Me, poor man, my library Was dukedom large enough.

Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war!

As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods. They kill us for their sport.