Quotes About Power

Given the daunting challenges that we face, it's important that president elect Obama is prepared to really take power and begin to rule day one.

When there is abuse by itself it's scary enough. When there is abuse within a religious setting it is so terrifying to people... nobody can bear it when it's linked to religion, but when it's linked to religion that is not mainstream it seems to frighten people more. As if yes, abuse exists, Satanism exists, but you can't have Satanist abuse.

Baiser permet aux hommes de se protéger contre leur désir d'être des femmes.

To call a man an animal is to flatter him; he's a machine, a walking dildo. It's often said that men use women. Use them for what ?Surely not pleasure.

If SCUM ever marches, it will be over the President's stupid, sickening face; if SCUM ever strikes, it will be in the dark with a six-inch blade.

On the contrary, the male has a vested interest in ignorance; it gives the few knowledgeable men a decided edge on the unknowledgeable ones, and besides, the male knows that an enlightened, aware female population will mean the end of him. The healthy, conceited female wants the company of equals whom she can respect and groove on; the male and the sick, insecure, unself-confident male female crave the company of worms.

GINGER: The hand that rocks the craddle rules the world. BONGI: That's a slick little maxim — while the hand's rocking the craddle it won't be rocking the boat.

Il mare sarebbe Dio? - No, ma è lo specchio in cui Dio si riflette. Guai a chi infrange il suo ordine e altera il ritratto dell'Onnipotente, composto dalle onde quando sono calme e si succedono regolari. Non può risultarne che una tempesta, attraverso la quale Satana troverà il suo varco.

si un pueblo alcanza un gran nivel de civilización se desarrolla al mismo tiempo también un cierto grado de corrupción.

quieras convencer a alguien más poderoso que tú para que haga una cosa que consideras necesaria, hazlo de manera que crea que ha sido él quien ha encontrado la solución. Pasa

Remember, my boy, I never fight for the pleasure of wielding weapons. War, for me, is simply politics by other means.

Quien tiene el verdadero poder no necesita joyas ni trajes fastuosos para demostrarlo. Quien siente esta necesidad admite su propia debilidad

Porque el poder es llevar una máscara.

Valerio Massimo Manfredi

Better sixty years of tyranny than a single day of civil strife.

Ultimately, the character of the region [the Middle East] will be decided in the crucible of Shia revival and the Sunni response to it.

There is no stopping the world's tendency to throw off imposed restraints, the religious authority that is based on the ignorance of the many, the political authority that is based on the knowledge of the few.

Civilization today reminds me of an ape with a blowtorch playing in a room full of dynamite. It looks like the monkeys are about to operate the zoo, and the inmates are taking over the asylum.

There are two omnipotences with Him: 'With God all things are possible": "All things are possible to him that believeth.

You can probably make them do anything for you: Sell people things they don't need; make women who don't know you fall in love with you.

Centralized economic systems also erode the democratic base of politics. In a democracy, the economic agenda is the political agenda.

We must find new lands from which we can easily obtain raw materials and at the same time exploit the cheap slave labour that is available from the natives of the colonies. The colonies would also provide a dumping ground for the surplus goods produced in our factories.2

Unfortunately, in our society, power means the ability to dominate and oppress.

Major Pugachiov didn't believe Vlasov's officers until he himself reached the Red Army units. Everything Vlasov's men had said was true. The state didn't want him, the state was afraid of him.