Quotes About Power

Women are the only oppressed group in our society that lives in intimate association with their opressors.

Charm - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.

The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.

What Democratic congressmen do to their women staffers, Republican congressmen do to the country.

Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn't worth ruling.

Men seem unable to feel equal to women: they must be superior or they are inferior.

Well you know boys, a nuclear reactor is a lot like women. You just have to read the manual and press the right button.

Men have been trained and conditioned by women, not unlike the way Pavlov conditioned his dogs, into becoming their slaves. As compensation for their labours men are given periodic use of a woman's vagina.

The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women merely adored.

'Oh yes,' he thinks, 'Women. With their subversive sexual tactics have no place in this game. It is no accident that the queen is the deadliest of pieces; the manly pawn: the weakest.'

You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.

They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.

Women's Tongues are as sharp as two-edged Swords, and wound as much, when they are anger'd.

Men should think twice before making widowhood women's only path to power.

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men, the other 999 follow women.

There are two kinds of women: those who want power in the world, and those who want power in bed.

The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes.

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Spiritual force is stronger than material force; thoughts rule the world.

A friend in power is a friend lost.

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside me.

The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.

To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun.