Quotes About Power

a principle called the unreasonable effectiveness of data.

I'll tell you this, though. It's not true, that saying about sticks and stones; it's words that break your bones.

I overheard a young man once saying to his wife, "I can't control you. That's the problem and it's been the problem ever since day one!" And then I heard her answer him and heard her terrible voice. "No!" she said. "The problem isn't that you can't control me, the problem is that you're trying to. Why don't you stop worrying about controlling me and start worrying about controlling yourself?

Power is anathema to intimacy, as it is to love, because when you have power, you have fear. So if you are trying to get closer to someone than you are right now, try recognizing their power rather than showing them yours.

At the very dawn of religion, God was a woman. Do you remember?

In the beginning, people prayed to the Creatress of Life, the Mistress of Heaven. At the very dawn of religion, God was a woman. Do you remember?

Theology is ultimately political. The way human communities deify the transcendent and determine the categories of good and evil have more to do with the power dynamics of the social systems which create the theologies than with the spontaneous revelation of truth from another quarter

From India to the Mediterranean, in fact, she reigned supreme, often appearing as the unmarried goddess.

Something to remember, that: cats for missiles.

I sometimes think about old tombs and weeds That interwreathe among the bones of kings With cold and poisonous berry and black flower: Or ruminate upon the skulls of steeds Frailer than shells and on those luminous wings - The shoulder blades of Princes of fled power, Which now the unrecorded sandstorms grind Into so wraith-like a translucency Of tissue-thin and aqueous bone - A Reverie of Bone

Silence is golden when it's called for. Silence can be deadly when it's not called for

I think leaders are incapable of the strength that passive resistance entails.

A nossa vida é feita de esperas. E, afinal, basta uma palavra, uma só palavra para sermos deuses, isentos de esperas.

A felicidade é uma coisa que os poderosos criaram para ilusão dos mais pobres.

Lourenço o menino não entendeu uma coisa: vocês não manda, você só dá ordens. Entendeu?

Há mulheres que são chuva, outras cacimbo. Essa tal Farida deve ser uma que vale a pena a gente se despenteasr com ela...

Nenhum governo do mundo manda mais que o medo e a culpa. O medo me fez viver, recatado e pequeno. A culpa me fez fugir de mim, desabitado de memórias.

Atribuir un nombre es un acto de poder. La primera y más definitiva ocupación de un territorio ajeno.

Até saíra num jornal da capital que aquilo era abuso do poder. Jonas ria-se: ele não abusava; os outros é que não detinham poderes nenhuns. E repetia o ditado: cabrito come onde está amarrado.

Por primera vez, Dios tuvo miedo de que la creación desafiase al Creador.

Emperors hunger for land, and their soldiers are mouths that devour nations.

La guerra no pide armas. Es al contrario: las armas hacen nacer la guerra.

A política é a arte de mentir tão mal que só pode ser desmentida por outros políticos.

A guerra é uma cobra que usa os nossos próprios dentes para nos morder.