Quotes About Power

The true termary dialectic does not realize the synthesis, not even in the future...realization...would be death...The dialectic requires permanent revolution, that is, the self-contestimg of power, which, therefore, should not be considered as absolute

Very few philosophers have been anarchists. Nearly all of them admit that a State and a power are necessary. They do not wash their hands of it, and yet they do not consent to the myth. Or, when they do, they nonetheless give warning that it is a myth. This is the source of their uneasiness. It is not an anomaly or an aristocratic malady.

In all identification, elements of sadomasochism are present.

Machiavelli is the complete contrary of a machiavellian, since he describes the tricks of power and "gives the whole show away." The seducer and the politician, who live in the dialectic and have a feeling and instinct for it, try their best to keep it hidden

Since perception itself is never complete, since ?ur perspectives give us a world to express and think about which envelopes and exceeds those perspectives, a world which announces itself in lightning signs as a spoken word or as an arabesque, why should the expression of the world be subjected to the prose of the senses or of the concept? It must be poetry; that is, it must completely awaken ?nd recall our sheer power of expressing beyond things already said or seen.

Meaning gives force and the more meaning this work has for you the more it will affect you emotionally and the more force will you obtain from it. For it is from the awakening of the emotional centre that the greatest force is derived.

And the wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws.

Por eso, yo contesto a esta presencia popular con las mismas palabras del 45: a la violencia le hemos de contestar con una violencia mayor. Con nuestra

Los años del segundo gobierno de Yrigoyen (1928-30) fueron los peores en este sentido. La maquinaria clientelar mostró una avidez insólita y la "empleomanía" se desbordó: "A mediados de 1929 todos los departamentos de la administración ya se habían convertido virtualmente en agencias de colocación que servían a los fines políticos del gobierno. El

En el silencio mandan los ruidos.

The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy." Woodrow Wilson, twenty-eighth President of the United States of America. Served 1913–1921. President during World War I, only President to be interred within Washington, DC, at the National Cathedral.

Law not served by power is an illusion; but power not ruled by law is a menace.

She had been in situations like this, where people said, Convince me, and in none of those had they actually wanted to be convinced. She could lay down a perfect argument and they just invented new bullshit on the spot to justify why the answer was still no. When people said, Convince me, she knew it didn't mean they had an open mind. It meant they had power and wanted to enjoy it a minute.

All empires fall, eventually." "But why? It's not for lack of power. In fact, it seems to be the opposite. Their power lulls them into comfort. They become undisciplined. Those who had to earn power are replaced by those who have known nothing else. Who have no comprehension of the need to rise above base desires.["]

To people at the top, the scariest thing is how many people there are below.

To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature.

Putin is smart enough not to believe his own propaganda. Trump isn't.

following the playbook of strongmen such as Viktor Orban, Vladimir Putin, and Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who silenced the press not by imposing censorship but by imposing financial pressure on independent news organizations to either force them out of business or into the hands of friendly owners.47

This is how all social, ideological, or religious movements police their members-by making clear that agreement will be rewarded with greater social standing and support, and dis-agreement punished with ostracism.

Trump even relies on Fox talking heads as trusted advisers. Sean Hannity, the Washington Post reports, "is so close to Trump that some White House aides have dubbed him the unofficial chief of staff.

Words," said the host, at length, "is worse'n bullets. You never know what they'll hit.

But then, there's a thing that's harder to watch than a sword or nitroglycerin. It cuts and it tears—a tongue does!

Word's is worse'n bullets. You never know what they'll hit.

I don't know if great times make great men, but I know they can kill them.