Quotes About Power

Deference refers to the abuser's entitlement to have his tastes and opinions treated as edicts.

YOUR ABUSIVE PARTNER DOESN'T HAVE A PROBLEM WITH HIS ANGER; HE HAS A PROBLEM WITH YOUR ANGER.

But abuse is not a battle that you win by being better at expressing yourself. You win it by being better at sarcasm, put-downs, twisting everything around backward, and using other tactics of control—an arena in which my clients win hands down over their partners, just as they do in a violent altercation. Who can beat an abuser at his own game?

An abuser can be thought of not as a man who is a "deviant," but rather as one who learned his society's lessons too well, swallowing them whole.

No one imagines keeping the powerful low for long, apart from anything because if the peasants governed and the lords worked the land, everyone would quickly die of hunger, because everyone gets the hands they deserve.

Sradica l'albero genealogico dell'avversario con la forza del turpiloquio.

Truly speech has wonderful strength and power, that through a mere word, proceeding out of the mouth of a poor human creature, the devil, that so proud and powerful spirit, should be driven away, shamed and confounded.

We must make a great difference between God's Word and the word of man. A man's word is a little sound, that flies into the air, and soon vanishes; but the Word of God is greater than heaven and earth, yea, greater than death and hell, for it forms part of the power of God, and endures everlastingly.

God created Adam lord of all living creatures, but Eve spoiled it all.

Out of the Indian approach to life there came a great freedom, an intense and absorbing respect for life, enriching faith in a Supreme Power, and principles of truth, honesty, generosity, equity and brotherhood as a guide to mundane relations.

War-waging and peace-making are as old as ants and apes.

We survive by controlling our environment, and control is made possible by information. So lack of information quickly breeds insecurity and a situation in which any information is regarded as better than none.

But I believed in the power of sacrament, in very much the way I do today—not as a Catholic but as a human open to the truth that something can be made sacred by the attention we grant it.

Los chicos malos ya no roban bancos, ahora los compran.

La víctima, cuando siente que la autoridad la cuestiona, porque no se le cree de entrada, prefiere desistirse de la denuncia y renuncia a continuar el proceso jurídico. Le da la sensación de desprotección, de abandono, desamparo e impunidad, pues sabe que difícilmente probará el delito. En este país tiene más fuerza el dicho del agresor que el de la víctima.

feminazis (un término acuñado por lo más recalcitrante del machismo violento para referirse a las feministas que supuestamente pretenden aniquilar a los hombres como género, al cuestionar su ejercicio de poder abusivo y desigual).

Cómo sabe un cliente si la mujer está ahí por propia voluntad o es esclava de una red de tratantes que la controlan con deudas impagables, amenazas y aisloamiento?

el imaginario social condona al victimario y se centra en las víctimas como coadyuvantes". La psicóloga asegura que los pederastas como Succar Kuri "no son monstruos ni enfermos; son hombres con una patología social que, en pleno uso de sus facultades y de su poder, deciden planear, protegerse y ejecutar sistemáticamente un delito, cuidando todos los flancos para no ser detenidos".

All men, every last one of them, were terribly fond of pretty women. Any cheeky housemaid could wrap any man, even a decent one, around her little finger.

There are also men in the world. Sometimes we forget, and think there are only women—endless hills and plains of unresisting women. We make little jokes and comfort each other and our lives pass quickly. But every now and then, it is true, a man rises unexpectedly in our midst like a pine tree, and looks savagely at us, and sends us hobbling away in great floods to hide in the caves and gullies until he is gone.

She eats her potatoes as though she would make a revolution among them, as though they were the People.

They do sometimes protest...At these times, she sounds authoritative. But she has no authority.

Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.

We first crush people to the earth, and then claim the right of trampling on them forever, because they are prostrate.