Quotes About Power

I've already established my (political)machinery. It's like a car. It's fixed already. You just have to get in and drive it.

With love you could persuade a Pathan to go to Hell, but by force you couldn't even take him to Heaven.

At heart most men are as terrified of women's infinite sexualcapacity as they are fascinated by it. The general effect on men isto make them feel sexually insecure and causes them to attempt tocompensate with some other strength. Sexual insecurity may bethe primary reason men have sought physical, political, financial,intellectual, and religious advantage over woman.

At the king's landing stage, the heads of stone beasts swim in the water, and so do their own shapes, the shapes of gentleman, their forms broken by ripples, and the everted queen flickering like a flame in a glass; around them, the dance of mild afternoon sunshine, and a flood of birdsong.

the media are not the holders of power, but they constitute by and large the space where power is decided.

Raum ist der Ausdruck der Gesellschaft.

Manuel Castells

Traditional ideologies, whether the egalitarian ideas of the left, or those that serve the values of the conventional right, have lost their way, and the quest for personal success through politics is now tied to the personal accumulation of capital by profiting from the period that positions of power are held.

We find it in the improbable rise to power of a character as bizarre, narcissistic and vulgar as Trump to the imperial office of President of the United States.

Es va aturar arran de taula , deixant que la sang fes el seu fet, suau, callada, i alhora misteriosament present i agradable, terriblement agradable...

Moltes coses havien estat possibles perquè ell no havia dit no. Perquè els altres que eren com ell no havien dit que no. No n'hi havia prou de refusar-se interiorment i obeir de mala gana. Calia dir que no.

We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power.

Vos sos la mujer araña, que atrapa a los hombres en su tela.

Nel mondo ha sempre regnato un ordine: sopra quelli che devono stare sopra e sotto quelli che devono stare sotto.

Todos los muertos vuelven si los llama el amante con la fuerza necesaria.

Every good communist should know that political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.

A revolution is not the same as inviting people to dinner, or writing an essay, or painting a picture…. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another.

Every Communist must grasp the truth: "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun."

War can only be abolished by war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.

Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one it is man and not materials that counts.

Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.

War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.

A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another.

All reactionaries are paper tigers.