Quotes About Power

The Sexyweight Champion of the World

This world leaves the Black man with no choice but to dominate it.

You ask for a savior, and you become their slave.

You can do almost anything, but you can undo absolutely nothing.

You cannot generate data without using energy.

Philip says to fear me. Do you have any idea how afraid I am of him?

Like legend and myth, magic fades when it is unused.

The word and the image mutually excluded each other. Joseph was a literary man to his very marrow; he put faith in the invisible Word; it was the most miraculous thing in all the world; though without form it had more power than anything endowed with form

Er) hat in unbegreiflicher Verblendung übersehen, daß ein Mensch auch ohne selbstständige Ideen und ohne Persönlichkeit in dem Augenblick Wesen und Inhalt annimt, in dem man Macht auf ihn überträgt.

A boy is a dangerous animal.

But many, perhaps most siblings share a private universe tropical with benevolence, betrayal, vendetta, reconciliation, and the use and abuse of power of which their parents know practically nothing

I mean when I was a kid, parents called the shots. Now I'm a parent, kids call the shots. So we get fucked coming and going. I can't believe this.

So annihilation is a kind of laziness. But it still provides the satisfactions of agency: I wreck, therefore I am.

Maybe it was different for you and Valerie, since you didn't like each other much. But many, perhaps most siblings share a private universe tropical with benevolence, betrayal, vendetta, reconciliation, and the use and abuse of power of which their parents know practically nothing.

violence is anything an airplane can do to a cloud

Blame confers an awesome power. And it's simplifying, not only to onlookers and victims but to culprits most of all. It imposes order on slag. Blame conveys clear lessons in which others may take comfort: if only she hadn't -- , and by implication makes tragedy avoidable. There may even be a fragile peace to be found in the assumption of total responsibility...

And there's an ownership to destruction, an intimacy: an appropriation.

indifference would ultimately commend itself as a devastating weapon.

Blame confers an awesome power. And it's simplifying, not only to onlookers and victims, but to culprits most of all.

Only a country that feels invulnerable can afford political turmoil as entertainment. But having come so close

La ocultación podía ser sinónimo de poder. Como andar por la casa con un revólver cargado.

La tarea de fijar los impuestos implica calcular cuánto pueden robar dejándonos a nosotros, los pobres infelices, lo suficiente para que sigamos trabajando, así el año que viene tendrán más para robar. El gobierno cultiva ciudadanos como si fueran verduras, y hay que dejar un puñado de semillas para la próxima siembra.

This pervasive craving to be recognized as special amounted to an abdication of power, an outsourcing of your core responsibilities. I spurned the fawning of strangers, but I did feel special to myself. I had found that "feeling special" was a private experience, and no one else's projected fascination could substitute for quiet absorption in your own life.

The right to boss pregnant women around was surely on its way into the Constitution