Quotes About Power

Haven't you seen the men slaves in this country who are used for breeding? They are never permitted to learn what it means to be a man. They are not permitted to care for their children.

Cities controlled by big companies are old hat in science fiction. My grandmother left a whole bookcase of old science fiction novels. The company-city subgenre always seemed to star a hero who outsmarted, overthrew, or escaped "the company." I've never seen one where the hero fought like hell to get taken in and underpaid by the company. In real life, that's the way it will be. That's the way it is.

All that you touch You Change. All that you Change Changes you.

It bothered me very much that they took both women away. The fat crazy woman had been permitted to go about her business until someone resisted. Then both victim and victimizer were treated as equally guilty.

Some middle class men prove they're men by having a lot of wives in temporary or permanent relationships. Some upper class men prove they're men by having one wife and a lot of beautiful, disposable young servant girls. Nasty.

The police,' my father told them, 'may be able to avenge you, but they can't protect you.

I wonder what you have to do to become a cop. I wonder what a badge is, other than a license to steal.

Dio è potere... Infinito Irresistibile, Inesorabile, Indifferente, Ma Dio è anche flessibile... Ingannatore, Insegnante, Caos, Argilla, Dio esiste per essere plasmato. Dio è cambiamento Questa è la pura verità. Non si può resistere o fermare Dio, ma lo si può plasmare e mettere a fuoco. Ciò significa che a Dio non vanno rivolte preghiere. Queste aiutano solo chi prega e solo se rafforzano e mettono a fuoco la sua determinazione.

Interesting that they fear Edward Jay Smith's supposed incompetence more than they fear Jarret's obvious tyranny.

God is Change, and in the end, God prevails. But God exists to be shaped.

But God exists to be shaped. It isn't enough for us to just survive, limping along, playing business as usual while things get worse and worse. If that's the shape we give to God, then someday we must become too weak—too poor, too hungry, too sick—to defend ourselves. Then we'll be wiped out. There has to be more that we can do, a better destiny that we can shape.

Imparando e adattandosi una vittima di Dio può diventare un suo compagno. Con lungimiranza e pianificazione una vittima di Dio può diventare un suo plasmatore. Oppure, per ristrettezza mentale e paura può restare vittima di Dio, il suo giocattolo, la sua preda.

All struggles Are essentially power struggles. Who will rule, Who will lead, Who will define, refine, confine, design, Who will dominate. All struggles Are essentially power struggles, And most are no more intellectual than two rams knocking their heads

The fans can be made to work on kid power. He's hooked them up to an old bicycle frame, and every Moss kid who's old enough to manage the pedals sooner or later gets drafted into powering the fans. The Moss kids hate it, but they know what they'll get if they don't do it.

Politicians, on the other hand, are short-term thinkers, opportunists, sometimes with consciences, but opportunists nevertheless.

When no influence is strong enough To unify people They divide.

I wonder what a badge is, other than a license to steal. What did it used to be to make people Bankole's age want to trust it. I know what the old books say, but still, I wonder.

most of us voted for Vice President Edward Jay Smith. None of us wanted an empty man like Smith in the White House, but even a man without an idea in his head is better than a man who means to lash us all back to his particular God the way Jesus lashed the money changers out of the temple.

When apparent stability disintegrates, As it must— God is Change— People tend to give in To fear and depression, To need and greed. When no influence is strong enough To unify people They divide. They struggle, One against one, Group against group, For survival, position, power.

Cities controlled by big companies are old hat in science fiction. My grandmother left a whole bookcase of old science fiction novels. The company-city genre always seemed to star a hero who outsmarted, overthrew, or escaped "the company." I've never seen one where the hero fought like hell to get taken in and underpaid by the company. In real life, that's the way it will be. That's the way it is.

They help us to shape God and to accept and work with the shapes that God imposes on us. God is power, and in the end, God prevails. But we can rig the game in our own favor if we understand that God exists to be shaped, and will be shaped, with or without our forethought, with or without our intent.

All struggles Are essentially power struggles.

All struggles Are essentially power struggles, And most are no more intellectual than two rams knocking their heads together.

People are setting fires to get rid of whomever they dislike from personal enemies to anyone who looks or sounds foreign or racially different. People are setting fires because they're frustrated, angry, hopeless. They have no power to improve their lives, but they have the power to make others even more miserable. And the only way to prove to yourself that you have power is to use it.