Quotes About Power

Has God forgotten all I have done for him?

I am the state.

The greatest potential for control the ends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Há, portanto, uma causa para a transposição imaginária das condições de existência reais; essa causa é a existência de um pequeno grupo de homens cínicos que assentam sua dominação e sua exploração do "povo" sobre uma representação falseada do mundo, imaginada por eles para subjugar os espíritos pela dominação de sua imaginação.

Os indivíduos são sempre-já sujeitos.

A reprodução das relações de produção não pode deixar de ser o empreendimento de uma classe. Ela se realiza ao longo de uma luta de classes que opõe a classe dominante à classe explorada.

Language was not given to man: he seized it.

As if one could do what one wanted with one's own body!

Society matters not so much. Words are everything.

But Pierre had been born with a shrewdness that made him early aware that a failure to believe that human events were ordered by a higher power was regarded by many in the highest positions as obnoxious and even sinful, and as nothing was to be gained by exciting such hostility, it was better to give a silent or even smiling assent to the fatuous idealism to which, particularly in youth, one was so relentlessly exposed.

claimed that God by virtue of His absolute power

In general we may define the mediatorial kingship of Christ as His official power to rule all things in heaven and on earth, for the glory of God, and for the execution of God's purpose of salvation.

she had made a discovery about life which he himself had made long since … that there is nothing of such force as the power of a person content merely to be himself, nothing so invincible as the power of simple honesty, nothing so successful as the life of one who runs alone. Somewhere

Well, when I was younger, I lied all the time, because once you understand the power of lying, it's really like magic because you transform reality for people.

We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.

We shall have lost something vital and beyond price on the day when the state denies us the right to resort to force...

History is the propaganda of the victors.

We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.

autour de nous des étrangers sont venus, qu'il nous plaît d'appeler des barbares ; ils ont pris presque tout le pouvoir ; ils ont acquis presque tout l'argent ; mais au pays de Québec rien n'a changé. Rien ne changera, parce que nous sommes un témoignage. De nous-mêmes et de nos destinées, nous n'avons compris clairement que ce devoir-là : persister... nous maintenir... et nous nous sommes maintenus, peut-être afin que dans plusieurs siècles encore le

Art is a product of the intuitive—the most powerful instrument within us. The intuitive is the most accurate sense we have.

Let him who looks for a monument to Washington look around the United States. Your freedom, your independence, your national power, your prosperity, and your prodigious growth are a monument to him.

Thus were we weaned to knowledge of the Will That wills the natural world, but wills us dead.

Of course civilizations are aggressive, Holmes says, but when they take up arms in order to impose their conception of civility on others, they sacrifice their moral advantage. Organized violence, at bottom, is just another form of oppression.

Elk dier en elke schrijver heeft een wapen waarmee hij zich best verdedigen kan