Quotes About Power

Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.

Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.

Every Communist must grasp the truth, 'Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.' Our principle is that the Communist Party commands the gun and the gun will never be allowed to command the Party.

Power grows from the barrel of a gun.

Revolution is not a dinner party, not an essay, nor a painting, nor a piece of embroidery it cannot be advanced softly, gradually, carefully, considerately, respectfully, politely, plainly and modestly.

Swollen in head, weak in legs, sharp in tongue but empty in belly. (On intellectuals)

Children don't write their own tragedies. That is the work of adults.

children don't write their own tragedies that's the work of adults.

La fuerza no está en tu cuerpo, sino en tu mente.

La palabra es libertad.

It is hard for them to condemn the gerontocratic ideal advocated by Cicero and Cato because that denouncement itself, coming from them, could easily pass, in the guise of preserved or rediscovered youth, as a claim to authority, as a coy claim to wisdom, experience, and power, at the very least the power of influence.

the power of each customer exchange. If the exchange was executed as well as possible—if we made the customer truly successful—we had the opportunity to transform him or her into an Apple loyalist and evangelist. This opened my eyes to the importance of customer success.

knowledge isn't truly powerful until it's shared.

That's a storm that's going to last untilThe final wind blows… and when the wind blows,The Cradle Will Rock.

There is certain power you gain being exempt from capitalist companies that UPC or ISBN the mark of the beast on your forehead and treat you like their favorite prostitute.

Gangway for de Lawd God Jehovah!

Dans le cercle du pouvoir, il n'y a aucun secret, seulement des types qui font semblant de ne pas savoir.

The Lord, even at the [5] time of the Pharaohs, had this right, for in Scripture He says to this monarch: "And therefore have I raised you, that I may show MY POWER in you, and my name may be spoken of throughout all the earth."314 Century has followed on century since the Most High has spoken those words, and since then His conduct has undergone no [10] change, for He is always using His creatures as instruments to carry on His work in souls.

Cromwell was a man who believed in the will of God and the power of an idea.

Congress still preserved its constitutionally mandated power of the purse.

Tu leur apprendras que rien ne compte plus sur cette terre que cette putain de liberté capable de se soumettre au plus offrant. Tu leur diras aussi que cette grande salope aime l'amour des hommes, et que toujours elle échappera à ceux qui veulent l'emprisonner, qu'elle ira toujours donner la victoire à celui la respecte sans jamais espérer la garder dans son lit.

If a guy can successfully invade your space and get you to back down, he's won—he's alpha and you're beta.

People become violent because they want something.

Indeed, the point of the famous story about the king and the waves, as originally told, was not to illustrate his stupidity, but rather to prove what a good Christian he had been. 'Let all the world know', says a damp Cnut, having conspicuously failed to stop the tide from rising, 'that the power of kings is empty and worthless, and there is no king worthy of the name save Him by whose will heaven, earth and sea obey eternal laws.'2