Quotes About Power

Perón utilizó a la juventud y a la izquierda para romper su aislamiento en el exilio. Los llamó la "nueva estrella" del movimiento. Pero una vez en el poder decidió, por propia voluntad, combatir a la izquierda revolucionaria y para eso le dio amplios poderes al ministro de Bienestar Social, José López Rega.

Os militares não dão cultura ao povo, porque se o povo tivesse cultura não os aceitaria.

Vendrán de París las modas y los libros; los pasteles de Hungría, la ilustración de Viena; peluqueros a bandadas, cocineros en montón. Se ordenará que los chicos se olviden del español, y que las beatas recen en la lengua de Voltaire, pero sólo la lengua, no la lectura, porque esa seguirá siendo perniciosa.

Si en este país hay un sospechoso, es la policía. LUIS GONZÁLEZ DE ALBA

En el gran vacío político que deja la desaparición de los numerosos cuadros de la independencia muertos en diez años de terrible guerra, el desastre de la falsa salida imperial iturbidista y la posterior vida frágil de la titubeante y dividida república, Santa Anna asciende, se eleva, se vuelve útil e indispensable. Irineo Paz dirá: «El gran Santa Anna, que por fuerza tenía que ser grande cuando lo rodeaban tantos peque

O imperialismo sabe ou não sabe o que a União Soviética é capaz de fazer para nos defender? (...) Se errarem, destruirão o imperialismo até suas raízes, mas de nós também sobrará muito pouco; por isso temos que lutar pela paz com convicção.

Aconteça o que acontecer, continuaremos sendo uma pequena dor de cabeça sempre que cheguemos até esta Assembléia ou a qualquer outra, porque estamos dispostos a chamar as coisas pelos seus devidos nomes e a dizer que os representantes dos Estados Unidos são os agentes da repressão no mundo inteiro.

El futuro será como quiera que sea, pero alguien tiene que hacerlo

Hagamos pues el último esfuerzo, unámonos como hijos de una sola familia y desaparecerán esos gobernadores".

Mi vida no valdrá nada si la gente de Félix Díaz se entera de que soy el autor de México bárbaro".

The multinational corporations now developing budgets often bigger than medium-sized countries — these live in a global space which is largely unregulated, not subject to the rule of law, and in which people may act free of constraint.

Television is democracy at its ugliest.

Low-intensity authoritarianism corrodes pluralism; new economic and political elites emerge, and their agendas take precedence over the best interests and the needs of their people.

Life Is Like A Train But We Have To Become Engine Which Controls The Train

A horse is the projection of peoples' dreams about themselves - strong, powerful, beautiful - and it has the capability of giving us escape from our mundane existence.

You, making the assumption that you're an average-size human being, contain no less than 7 times 10 to the 18th (7 1018) joules of potential energy.

expectations, in fact, are so powerful that placebos (fake treatments like sugar pills, saline injections, and sham surgery) cause bald men to grow hair, high blood pressure to drop, ulcers to heal, dopamine levels to increase, and even tumors to shrink. And although pharmaceutical companies would rather keep this on the down low, placebos relieve symptoms on par with real medication. In other words, it's our beliefs that do the healing.

Ask, in Aramaic, means a combination of "claim" (as in, that deed to the land is yours) and "demand." To ask for something in prayer is to simply lay hold of what's yours. You have the right, and even the responsibility to command your life.

Only the rich can afford character, but most of them soon to dispense with it soon enough. They just have the money or the power to buy their way out of trouble before the whispers get too loud, but poor men...poor men are judged without mercy.

Sometimes when you smile, it's not because you're happy. It's because you're strong.

I think I'm in control of what I do and what I've done. I think that's the ultimate feminine power. Do as you want.

You think to judge me, MacKinnon? I've littered the ground wi' the corpses of men like you." Iain raised his blade and smiled. "You've never met a man like me.

We outrank the Agency here in the homeland. If they want a dick fight, we'll give them one.

Forget you are a man. Loose the animal you hide inside.