Quotes About Power

Together they owned the large, flamboyant Doctor Beltado. They might ignore him, they might even despise him, but no one else was going to get him.

Les vagues sont hautes ce soir. Elles me frappent, me rouent de coups, s'abattent sur moi avec toute la brutalité nécessaire. À cet instant c'est exactement ce que j'attends d'elles. Qu'elles m'assomment. Me foutent la tête sous l'eau.

Of course, with the arrival of both Washington and General Lincoln, La Fayette had lost his command and was again the leader of a mere division

La poésie est l'arme du pauvre.

La poésie est l'arme de la révolte.

The free market economy is supposed to be the only path leading to the happiness of humanity by promoting wealth and prosperity, power and influence of nations.

The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.

mientras respira el tirano, la libertad se asfixia".

Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.

In short, all this should emphasize the concentration of power in the whole body by simultaneously placing strength in the tanden and by infusing the whole body with energy moving away from the tanden. Thus, by means of the equilibrium of the centrifugal and the centripetal force, the whole body is brought to a state of zero and spiritual power will pervade the whole body intensely.

I think education is power. I think that being able to communicate with people is power. One of my main goals on the planet is to encourage people to empower themselves.

The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.

when attacked, centralized organizations tend to become even more centralized.

The moment you introduce property rights into the equation, everything changes: the starfish organization turns into a spider. If you really want to centralize an organization, hand property rights to the catalyst and tell him to distribute resources as he sees fit. With power over property rights, the catalyst turns into a CEO and circles become competitive.

At the core of what happened with the Apaches and with AA was the concentration of power. Once people gain a right to property, be it cows or book royalties, they quickly seek out a centralized system to protect their interests. It's why we want our banks to be centralized. We want control, we want structure, we want reporting when it comes to our money.

Whether it comes from a despotic sovereign or an elected president, from a murderous general or a beloved leader, I see power as an inhuman and hateful phenomenon.

To be good or bad doesn't count: life out in this world doesn't depend on that. It depends on a relation of forces based on violence. And survival is violence. You'll wear leather shoes because someone has killed a cow and skinned it to make leather.

No matter what system you live under, there is no escaping the law that it's always the strongest, the cruellest, the least generous who win.

I know ours is a world made by men for men, their dictatorship is so ancient it even extends to language.

I do not deny in the least that the rational nature will always keep its free will, but I declare that the power and effectiveness of Christ's cross and of his death, which he took upon himself toward the end of the aeons, are so great as to be enough to set right and save, not only the present and the future aeon, but also all the past ones, and not only this order of us humans, but also the heavenly orders and powers." (Comm. in Rom. 4.10)

The influential man is the successful man, whether he be rich or poor.

What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart?

There is only one thing for us to do, and that is to do our level best right where we are every day of our lives To use our best judgment, and then to trust the rest to that Power which holds the forces of the universe in his hands.

Thrift means that you should always have the best you can possibly afford, when the thing has any reference to your physical and mental health, to your growth in efficiency and power.