Quotes About Power

Whenever you speak negatively, you create a conflict between the good and bad seed that is in your heart.

The authorities don't grant concessions out of the kindness of their hearts; they simply concede the reality of what their subjects are strong enough to compel from them. If you want political leverage, don't beg for it, don't seek it through their channels - take power outside them.

It's not that the government made us do it; you can't think that way," John said. "They made us not ask questions, they told us what to think, but also, we did it.

I resent the hell out of the politicians and generals who force events on us that structure our lives, that dictate the memories we'll have when we're old.

I imagine these men sitting in fashion control centers around the world thinking of new ways to torture women, new ways to make them wince twenty years from now when they look at old photographs of themselves.

I think America has more than enough maturity and intelligence to start exercising its world leadership responsibly.

Reina sin reino, princesa sin súbditos, generosa son dinero, política sin causa, cristiana sin fe, artífice de su propia ruina. Sobre Cristina de Suecia

No tener que obedecer es dicha mayor que mandar en toda la Tierra».

y la palabra Ama, anagrama donde el poder y el amor se igualan.

Se le ocurrió que los psicoanalistas varones eran como machos cabríos: les gustaba tener una manada de mujeres dependientes, sumisas, frustradas, que trabajaban para él y lo consultaban acerca de todas las cosas, como si él fuera el gran macho, el macho Alfa, el patriarca, la autoridad suprema, Dios.

Ayer a la noche en la soledad habitada de la ciudad moribunda volví a amarte con la furia inmoderada de los deseos reprimidos y otra vez fui joven otra vez fui poderosa violenta ávida nocturna exaltada milagrera lírica obscena

Wealth, status, and power have become in our culture all too powerful symbols of happiness. ... And we assume that if only we could acquire some of those same symbols, we would be nuch happier.

Our ego is our silent partner--too often with a controlling interest.

We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can.

The important question to ask is why these bodies are allowed to exist. If a country such as Spain allowed a repressive body like the Inquisition to exist for four hundred years, it is not because the Inquisition forced itself on the Spanish nation. It is because the Spaniards allowed it to exist.

Every creative force has an equal power to destroy.

I want to look at you as you kill me

Sometime in the future - 25 50, 75 years hence - what will the situation be like then? By that time the Chinese will have the capability of delivery too.

If we maintain our faith in God, love of freedom, and superior global air power, the future looks good.

Unjust systems appear normal to those in power, and any change will produce feelings of loss. True reconciliation, through the cross of Jesus, will affect the lives of the privileged. The colonizer has to completely leave the confines of power and privilege and join with those who are colonized. Of the colonizer Memmi declared, "let him adopt the colonized people and be adopted by them; let him become a turncoat.

Reconciliation for the powerful and privileged means trusting those who have lived under oppression and even following their lead in becoming one new humanity.

God lurks in the shadows of the palaces of power and privilege, waiting for activists to dismantle the very structures that lock society into the evil of institutionalized injustice and separation.

Reconciliation is often assumed to mean white institutions adding or including persons of color but never transforming the central identity from white (and male) to a truly inclusive human identity.

money kill justice