Quotes About Power

I do think there are certain times we should infringe on your freedom.

a country can be too small, too socially knitted, too tightly tied for its own good. Strong social networks can, in certain circumstances, turn to incestuous corruption and the shutting down of democratic discourse. You

Entertainment in its broadest sense- popular ballads, vaudeville, films, sculptures, plays, paintings, pornography, pulp novels-- has not only been a primary mode of expression of LGBT identity, but one of the most effective means of social change. Ironically, the enormous political power of these forms was often understood by the people who wanted to ban them, not by the people who were simply enjoying them.

we had bypassed Romeo and Juliet and gone straight to Macbeth.

The world is always ruled by a maniac. - Baba Yaga

Respect the Sword, Grimm.

How did you know that we could get him to do whatever we want if we pretend he's in charge?" Sabrina asked Daphne. "It's what I do with you" the little girl replied. "You two are exactly the same

Even the simplest of God's animals argue and fret over position and authority… asserting, sometimes with force, just who deserves what. The difference is, of course, that the wars of the chickens won't ever break the world.

The technology to control and destroy people always has in it the seeds of tyranny, and is forever subject to the lowest angels of human nature.

Inherent in the power to make men free by force is the power to enslave them again

within every technological advancement lie the seeds of tyranny and slavery.

Nuclear power will help provide the electricity that our growing economy needs without increasing emissions. This is truly an environmentally responsible source of energy.

I certainly know there are people in positions of power in the business who lack imagination and, perhaps as a result of that, think of me as 'David'. But I wouldn't really want to work with those people, you know?

and he smiled a lot. The smile did not mean that he was happy. It meant he was stronger than most people, and that he intended to take advantage of it.

Exactly what the great white eats in an emergency is a mystery ichthyologists solved by the late twentieth century after decades of investigation: whatever it wishes.

She refused to accept the simple truism that the better you were, the bigger threat you were to those at the top....

Money. The ultimate motivation. The ultimate way of keeping score.

God creates dinosaurs, God kills dinosaurs, God creates man, man kills God, man brings back dinosaurs.

Let's be clear. The planet is not in jeopardy. We are in jeopardy. We haven't got the power to destroy the planet - or to save it. But we might have the power to save ourselves.

God created dinosaurs. God destroyed dinosaurs. God created Man. Man destroyed God. Man created dinosaurs. Dinosaurs eat man...Woman inherits the earth.

You know what's wrong with scientific power? It's a form of inherited wealth. And you know what assholes congenitally rich people are.

Malcolm: A karate master does not kill people with his bare hands. He does not lose his temper and kill his wife. The person who kills is the person who has no discipline, no restraint, and who has purchased his power in the form of a Saturday night special. And that is why you think that to build a place like this is simple. Hammond: It was simple. Malcolm: Then why did it go wrong?

She could have had a life as potent and dangerous as literature itself.

We now live in the Esperantists' dreamworld, but the universal language of natural science is English, a language that is the native tongue of some very powerful nation states and as a consequence not at all neutral ["Absolute English," Aeon , February 4, 2015]