Quotes About Power

Helpless and fearful people are drawn to magical figures, mythic figures, epic men who intimidate and darkly loom. ... Some people are larger than life. Hitler is larger than death. You thought he would protect you. I understand completely.

A writer creates a character as a way to reveal consciousness, increase the flow of meaning. This is how we reply to power and beat back our fear.

Technology has become a force of nature. We can't control it. It comes blowing over the planet and there's nowhere for us to hide.

Are secrets a tunnel to a dreamworld where you control events?

being called a 'bad citizen' is a compliment to a novelist, at least to my mind. That's exactly what we ought to do. We ought to be bad citizens. We ought to, in the sense that we're writing against what power represents, and often what government represents, and what the corporation dictates, and what consumer consciousness has come to mean. In that sense, if we're bad citizens, we're doing our job.

Whoever controls your eyeballs runs the world.

He is saying terror is what we use to give our people their place in the world. What used to be achieved through work, we gain through terror. Terror makes the new future possible. All men one man. Men live in history as never before. He is saying we make and change history minute by minute. History is not the book or the human memory. We do history in the morning and change it after lunch.

How is Hitler? Fine, solid, dependable.

I stood there, battered by the raw power and sheer magnificence of a land I'd never known

A demagogue is a person with whom we disagree as to which gang should mismanage the country.

Ono što ?ete zatim otkriti 53 nevjerojatno je. Otkrit ?ete da ste sila - sila koja daje život vašemu tijelu, sila koja umu omogu?uje da sanja.

be impeccable with your word. Your word is the power that you have to create. Your word is the gift that comes directly from God. The Gospel of John in the Bible, speaking of the creation of the universe says, "In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word is God." Through the word you express your creative power. It is through the world that you manifest everything. The world is a force... Your word is pure magic, and misuse of your word is black magic.

We have growing wealth creation and growing social inequality. Powerful

interlocks as forcing functions to prevent people from opening the door of the oven or disassembling the devices without first turning off the electric power: the interlock disconnects the power the instant the door is opened or the back is removed. In automobiles with automatic transmissions, an interlock prevents the transmission from leaving the Park position unless the car's brake pedal is depressed.

The elders constantly reminded Sacred Feathers of the need to make a vision quest -- to obtain, through fasting, a guardian spirit to guide and protect them through life. Animals, birds, and fish could speak with them and, in a dream or vision, give their power.

You are asking me to give up my sword? -I am. -Then I shall be swordless. Think what that means.

It is true that I am part of the laughing-aristocrat structure, Charles said. I don't mean I am one of them. I mean I am their creature. They hold me in thrall. Laughing aristocrats who invented the cost-plus contract . . . Laughing aristocrats who invented the real estate broker . . . Laughing aristocrats who invented Formica . . . Laughing aristocrats wiping their surfaces clean with a damp cloth . . . Charles poured himself another brilliant green Heineken. -To the struggle!

Now and then, especially at night, solitude loses its soft power and loneliness takes over. I am grateful when solitude returns.

Leverage: don't make deals without it. Enhance

A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.1   —President Gerald Ford

You know what uranium is, right? This thing called nuclear weapons like lots of things are done with uranium including some bad things.

We are no longer a leader. Putin has become the leader, and it's an embarassment to our country.

I'm the only boss in the world who boosts a person's future status by firing them.

Donald J. Trump