Quotes About Power

Massive concentration of financial power, accompanied by the machinations of finance capital, can as easily de-stabilize as stabilize capitalism.

In real-world Finance, they don't pay for elegance. They pay for power - predictive power.

I think the presidency is a bad way to measure the effective campaign finance, because in the presidency, there is so much publicity, there's so much money floating around.

High finance trembles in its boots whenever there is some political complication.

There can be no clearer indication of how undemocratic the way we finance campaigns is than the fact that only one-quarter of 1% donate $200 or more, and only one-tenth of 1% gives $1,000 or more.

Most politicians are corrupt as they do not represent the masses that voted for them, but rather they choose to return numerous favors to the corporations that funded their election campaigns.

Though she be but little, she is fierce!

The bicycle is a curious vehicle. Its passenger is its engine.

he who feeds you, controls you

Emotions, particularly anger, are like fire. They can cook your food and keep you warm, or they can burn your house down.

Control oil and you control nations; control food and you control the people.

The powerful feed ideology to the masses like fast food while they dine on that most rarefied delicacy: impunity.

I did not climb to the top of the food chain to eat carrots.

I am the emperor of Germany, but you are the emperor of chefs.

We, the people, do have the power to stop the tragic waste of resources if we regard it as socially unacceptable to waste food.

After eating chocolate you feel godlike, as though you can conquer enemies, lead armies, entice lovers.

Spaghetti is no food for fighters.

If someone is very hungry, the Angkar will take him where he will be stuffed with food.

Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into an oak! Bury a sheep, and nothing happens but decay.

Would food be considered an instrument of national power? ... Is the U.S. prepared to accept food rationing to help people who can't/won't control their population growth?

Give them great meals of beef and iron and steel, they will eat like wolves and fight like devils.

At the World Food Programme we have recognized what a valuable tool food aid can be in changing behaviour. In so many poorer countries food is money, food is power.

Aioli epitomizes the heat, the power, and the joy of the Provencal sun, but it has another virtue -- it drives away flies.

Pepper is small in quantity and great in virtue.