Quotes About Power

As so often in history, equality for some can only be achieved by discriminating against all the rest.

Our armed forces are not the thirtieth strongest in the world, but rather the second or third. We have the capability to take the world down with us. And I can assure you that this will happen before Israel goes under.

In a passage that foreshadows criticisms of equality from his time to the present, he also mentions the "despotism" of the law required to enforce equality and maintain it.[37]

Only one thing yet remains, that we should unite our prayer to His—or rather, should implore Him to make it one with His. For this union will render it so powerful that no other prayers can compare with it.

The two most powerful nations had been squared off against each other," Khrushchev stated, "each with its finger on the button." "It is insane," Kennedy said, "that two men sitting on opposite sides of the world should be able to decide to bring an end to civilization.

IT DOESN'T MATTER WHO YOU VOTE FOR, THE GOVERNMENT ALWAYS GETS IN.

Everyone knew women were far more ruthless than men. Men got mad and women got even, there was a big difference.

Dux femina facti The leader of the enterprise a woman. Virgil

Woman, a pleasing but short-lived flower, Too soft for business and too weak for power: A wife in bondage, or neglected maid: Despised, if ugly; if she's fair, betrayed. - Mary Leapor, 1722-1746 'An Essay on Woman' Do not adultery commit; Advantage rarely comes of it. - Arthur Hugh Clough, 1819-1861 'The Latest Decalogue

There were other ways of battering women too, ways that did not involve physical violence, and Kate sometimes thought that the mental battering was worse.

His soft voice was his trademark and he had a saying: You can do more with a soft voice than a big stick.

There is power in the blood, justice in the sword When that call it comes, I will be ready for war Alabama 3, 'Power In The Blood' Album: Power in the Blood, 2002

You prayed at the holy shrine Still the guru wouldn't receive you You've seen so many signs Still they call you a non-believer Alabama 3, 'Come On Home' Album: Power in the Blood, 2002

Why did people feel like this nowadays? Why were they so scared of chastising their kids, of making them listen to reason, explaining that what they were doing was wrong? Mary had not felt for a long time that she was in a position to offer her advice and she wondered when the children, the youngest members of the family, had suddenly acquired so much power that they were more or less laws unto themselves.

You can do more with a soft voice than a big stick?

life was just a series of events, that was all, and you had no real power over it whatsoever. You just thought you did.

When I did Dangerous Lady, they told me it was too violent and I said – she's hardly going to hit them with her handbag!

Remember I told you the truth so that the words and the real might be one again, giving you power. Remember me, and love me anyway.

Under the leadership of President Bush and Vice President Cheney, the United States has given up the moral high ground that we used to occupy as an international leader.

Moore's Law, the 1965 prediction that the amount of computing power you can buy for a dollar will double every 18 months. Gordon Moore's formula has surprised everyone with its consistency.

The war to preserve the privilege of mythmaking

We should have gone little beyond the Yanomamo if the net outcome of the sexual revolution is a secure position for women at the head of mace squads or in the nuclear command posts.

In many ways the rise of the state was the descent of the world from freedom to slavery

Durante miles de años, los varones han visto a las mujeres no como éstas podían ser, sino exclusivamente como ellos querían que fueran.