Quotes About Power

En la época colonial sucedió lo mismo. Los leones me recuerdan a los soldados del ejército portugués. Habíamos fantaseado tanto con esos portugueses que se volvieron poderosos. Los portugueses no tenían fuerza para ganarnos. Por eso, hicieron que sus víctimas se matasen a sí mismas. Y nosotros, negros, aprendimos a odiarnos a nosotros mismos.

Um exército de ovelhas liderado por um leão é capaz de derrotar um exército de leões liderado por uma ovelha.

The power of the mind is an incredible thing, one that can never be underestimated.

Being Jedi is what we are. It's not the power we weild or the weapons we carry." -Luke Skywalker

On Dantooine, when Mara made me stop using the Force like a crutch, I had a lot of time to think about things. I realized I was using the force too much. Uncle Luke uses it like an advisor, or sometimes a power source. Others use it like a vibroblade, some like an opinion poll, and others yet like a whole variety of tools. I thought all about that, and I guess I chose to follow in Uncle Luke's footsteps." -Anakin

History is not just a flat chronicle of events. History is an understanding of the forces that work, the values that shape present action and direct the future. If you have that knowledge, you are empowered in ways that you can't get by watching the nightly news or reading the morning editorials. We live in an ahistorical age when many people's memories go back to breakfast, but if you're armed with that insight you have immense power for good.

One night of strategic bombing will restore all your lost prestige in the Middle East

the myth of the secret society, if not the secret society itself, played a major role in nineteenth-century European history.

in March 1314, Jacques de Molay, the grand master, and Geoffroi de Charnay, preceptor of Normandy, were roasted to death over a slow fire.

I TEGO ARCANA DEI (BEGONE! I CONCEAL THE SECRETS OF GOD.)

A divine falsehood is more powerful than any human truth.

neocolonization.

Weber also saw that a bureaucratic world contained risks. It produced increasingly powerful and autonomous bureaucrats who could be spiritless, driven only by impersonal rules and procedures, and with little regard for the people they were expected to serve. Weber famously warned that those who allow themselves to be guided by rules will soon find that those rules have defined their identities and commitments.

to `educate' us, to keep us mentally enslaved.

he was/is God in the same way that they themselves were God, with the difference between themselves and the emperor lying in the degree of inspiration by, or in the dwelling of, the Holy Spirit.

Haile Selassie I." One said that when he used the term, he literally meant "the power of the holy trinity: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

the way to fight Babylon was through music.

money brings confusion.

Fast cars are my only vice.

It was her business now to believe - in the power and beauty of words, in the spirits that move among us always, in the worlds of light and dark that neighbor us - to believe in the possibility of the impossible.

A man from a primitive culture who sees an automobile might guess that it was powered by the wind or by an antelope hidden under the car, but when he opens up the hood and sees the engine he immediately realizes that it was designed.

hate comes at you when you make any stand. It's the price of trying to be heard. If that's the case, and we accept it, then it's a waste of emotion to react to the negativity. The hate, the rage that people throw at you only has power if you let it affect you.

Government by three men in a room has turned New York State into a national symbol of governmental dysfunction. Enough is enough!

Nobody's going to elect me president of the United States.