Quotes About Power

We do not ride on the railroad; it rides upon us.

It is important to consider whether the sample size selected by the Environmental Genome Project will provide sufficient power to discover most alleles relevant to gene-environment interactions.

We only have to capture 1/10,000th of the solar energy landing on earth to completely satisfy all our energy needs.

Lightning is the shorthand of a storm, and tells of chaos.

Equality before the law is probably forever unattainable. It is a noble ideal, but it can never be realized, for what men value in this world is not rights but privileges.

The weak are always anxious for justice and equality. The strong pay no heed to either.

His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants' hall.

Behind the honeyed but patently absurd pleas for equality is a ruthless drive for placing themselves (the elites) at the top of a new hierarchy of power.

The opposite of heterosexual desire is the eroticising of sameness, a sameness of power, equality and mutuality. It is homosexual desire.

The real guarantee of freedom is an equilibrium of social forces in conflict, not the triumph of any one force.

There is equality in the office but not on the street.

All the citizens of a state cannot be equally powerful, but they may be equally free

Giving out crowns to everyone will not make a nation of kings.

Equality of two domestic powers Breeds scrupulous faction.

This dream of absolute, universal equality is amazing, terrifying, and inhuman. And the moment it captures people's minds, the result is mountains of corpses and rivers of blood.

Every seeming equality conceals a hierarchy.

If human equality is to be forever averted -- if the High, as we have called them, are to keep their places permanently -- then the prevailing mental condition must be controlled insanity.

The democrats think that as they are equal they ought to be equal in all things.

The supernatural virtue of justice consists of behaving exactly as though there were equality when one is the stronger in an unequal relationship.

democracy always makes for materialism, because the only kind of equality that you can guarantee to a whole people is, broadly speaking, physical.

No one really believes in equality who's on top.

Yes, that is the equality of man. Slaughter anybody who is better than you are, and then we shall be equal soon enough. All equally dead.

Where equality is undisputed, so also is subordination.

Equality may be the law, but no human power can install it.