Quotes About Power

Llorad de gozo, pues ella se ha hecho dueña del Horizonte! Había una nota triunfal en su cántico, y también un pesar más profundo que el que podían experimentar los demás. Cuando los otros respondieron: «¡Vive; ella vive para siempre!», Hatshepsut rompió a llorar. Sintió entonces que el inmenso puño de su

Under the state constitutions, "every thing which is not reserved is given," but under the federal Constitution "every thing which is not given, is reserved.

Mason was responsible for giving Congress the power to "declare"—not "make"—war, which he saw as a way of "facilitating peace," and supplied the phrase about giving the country's enemies "aid and comfort" in the constitutional definition of treason.

What makes the tyger poisonous and dangerous is the poison in its bones!

Keep me rather in this cage, and feed me sparingly, if you dare. Anything that brings me closer to illness and the edge of death makes me more faithful. It is only when you make me suffer that I feel safe and secure. You should never have agreed to be a god for me if you were afraid to assume the duties of a god, and we know that they are not as tender as all that. You have already seen me cry. Now you must learn to relish my tears.

She was waiting for more than permission, since she already had permission. She was waiting for an order.

Keep me rather in this cage, and feed me sparingly, if you dare. Anything that brings me closer to illness and the edge of death makes me more faithful. It is only when you make me suffer that I feel safe and secure. You should never have agreed to be a god for me if you were afraid to assume the duties of a god, and we all know that they are not as tender as all that. You have already seen me cry. Now you must learn to relish my tears.

She was apt at hunting, a naturally trained bird of prey who would beat the game and always bring it back to the hunter. And speaking of the devil Ã¢â'¬Â¦ It

The word "open" and the expression "opening her legs" were, on her lover's lips, charged with such uneasiness and power that she could never hear them without experiencing a kind of internal prostration, a sacred submission, as though a god, and not he, had spoken to her.

But he spoke. Holding her by the collar, with two fingers slipped in between the neck and collar, he told her it was his intention that henceforth she should be shared by him and those of his choosing, and by those whom he did not know who were connected to the society of the château, shared as she had been the previous evening.

The right to dispose of her body however they wished, in whatever place or manner they should choose, the right to keep her in chains, the right to whip her like a slave or prisoner for the slightest failing or infraction, or simply for their pleasure, the right to pay no heed to her pleas and cries, if they should make her cry out.

O was infinitely more moving when her body was covered with marks, of whatever kind, if only because these marks made it impossible for her to cheat and immediately proclaimed, the moment they were seen, that anything went as far as she was concerned. For to know this was one thing, but to see the proof of it, and to see the proof constantly renewed, was quite another.

The power you have over someone who loves you is greater than any other power you'll ever have.

You're to need a lot more strength when you hear what I'm about to you

Mankind has never invented a weapon that they did not use sooner or later.

Tatiana yields herself to remind him that her submission-the source of all his strength-is his privilege and not his right.

Love is the force that transforms and improves the Soul of the World. It is we who nourish the Soul of the World, and the world we live in will be either better or worse, depending on whether we become better or worse. And that's where the power of love comes in. Because when we love, we always strive to become better than we are.

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

Even revolution, which transforms a concrete situation of oppression by establishing the process of liberation, must confront this phenomenon. Many of the oppressed who directly or indirectly participate in revolution intend - conditioned by the myths of the old order - to make it their private revolution. The shadow of their former oppressor is still cast over them.

The oppressors, whose tranquility rests on how well people fit the world the oppressors have created, and how little they question it.

Only power that springs from the weakness of the oppressed will be sufficiently strong to free both.

The oppressed, as objects, as "things", have no purposes except those their oppressors prescribe for them.

From the first, the act of conquest, which reduces persons to the status of things, is necrophilia

The rightist sectarian wants to slow down the historical process, to domesticate time and thus to domesticate men and women.