Quotes About Power

Men command the world that they know," she says. "Everything that men know, they make their own. Everything that they learn, they claim for themselves. They are like the alchemists who look for the laws that govern the world, and then want to own them and keep them secret. Everything they discover, they hug to themselves; they shape knowledge into their own selfish image. What is left to us women but the realms of the unknown?

Drama and crisis are currency to them because they love the power to make people react. They thrive on a good fight, a good scandal, a good drama.

Power begins with having a crystal-clear view of reality and what each and every person in your life is driven by.

Self-acceptance was the foundation of the happiest time in your life and it was the engine that powered the train.

Those who have been persecuted are, alas, all too often the persecutors of tomorrow.

Lyra marveled at the effect hope could have.

Nobody gets to be Queen of England by being loveable. You will have to play your cards right.

The queen is right. The queen is always right.

I felt as if we were fighting something worse than Anne, some demon that possessed her, that possessed all of us Boleyns: ambition - the devil that had brought us to this little room and brought my sister to this insane distress and us to this savage battle.

For most women, being seen, having others pay attention to you, is imagined and experienced as more desirable and more powerful than commanding an army or seizing control of the means of production and reproduction.

Once Lola Pierotti earned $24,000 a year and worked long hours as an administrative assistant on Capitol Hill. Now she works longer hours and has even more responsibility- but no pay. What happened? Was she demoted? No, she just married the boss. Her bridegroom, of four years this month, was the senior Republican Senator from Vermont- George D. Aiken. All he expects of me is that I drive his car, cook his meals, do his laundry and run his office, she enumerated, with a grin.

sister-victims of the patriarchy.

subjection of the wife to the husband's will." Her "therapy" consisted of imprisonment and domestic servitude

La giustizia è un robot senza cuore nè intelligenza: colpisce a seconda della carica che ha avuto. E la carica è costituita dalle prove.

Grown ups don't believe in Santa Claus. They vote.

Come try my strength, you dogs who thought to attack helpless prey! But when you do, O beasts of night, know that you face the Lord of Night. I am Death!

Wealth and power at the expense of nature were an inevitably lethal cancer. But there seemed to be no gentle way to convince cancer to practice moderation.

He who conquers the streets conquers the masses; and he who conquers the masses conquers the state.

then America still has the power to change, and to change quickly and for the better. And I hope it does, because a successful America, with a new-found

Yo declaro que la justicia no es otra cosa que la conveniencia del más fuerte.

There is in every one of us, even those who seem to be most moderate, a type of desire that is terrible, wild, and lawless.

The society we have described can never grow into a reality or see the light of day, and there will be no end to the troubles of states, or indeed, my dear Glaucon, of humanity itself, till philosophers become rulers in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty and there is nothing to fear from them then he is always stirring up some wary or other in order that the people may require a leader.

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.