Quotes About Power

But what is happening in America today is, I think, unparalleled in history. We are rising to the top and falling to the bottom; we are becoming wealthier as individuals and baser as a society; we are more powerful than ever and less mindful; we share a level of prosperity that is so high that it is a new thing in history, unprecedented in the story of man, and yet this wonderful thing we share has not made us closer as a people. And this has implications.

Word of the day- kakistocracy. From the Greek meaning government by the worst persons, least qualified or most unprincipled.

If representational visibility equals power, then almost-naked young white women should be running Western culture.

If you've never seen a steel magnolia on the warpath, you've missed one of the world's greatest wonders.

The power of language. Preserving the ephemeral; giving form to dreams, permanence to sparks of sunlight.

I control the world so long as I can name it. Which is why children must chase language before they do anything else, tame the wilderness by describing it, challenge God by learning His hundred names.

Kindness! I think that it is possible to kill with kindness....

He envisioned protests that were less aimed at hearts and minds than based on power that could be leveraged with organized, disciplined, nonviolent political soldiers.

The Confederacy lost the war but resoundingly won the peace.

Well perhaps it is the context in which words are spoken that give them the power of meaning. I LOVE YOU DOG.

If stupid hippies hadn't killed nuclear power, we'd have nuclear power plants, safer and cheaper than coal-fired plants, all over, and electric cars really would be zero emissions.

In any conflict, the crazier party generally wins.

Beware! In every man there lurks the falcon; a streak of ruthlessness and thirst for power.

She hated Jourdan as she had never hated anyone in her life before. She tried to move away, but he wouldn't let her, his face a white mask of fury above her, and she realised that she had voiced her thoughts out loud. 'You don't hate me, mignonne,' he drawled with harsh cruelty, his fingers biting into the tender flesh of her arms. 'You hate yourself for being a woman...

Ace had built a small fire and was sitting with his forearms draped over his upraised knees. He must have sensed her presence because he glanced over his shoulder with a sharp jerk of his head. In profile, he was the image of hidden power and fierce beauty. She realized that he must have bathed in the chilly waters of the creek, because

Pjäsen handlade, sa Konungen till mig, om att ondskan funnes i så hög grad hos dessa människor vid hovet att de liknade apor eller djävlar; de gladde sig åt andras olyckor och sörjde över deras framgångar, detta vore det som druidernas tid kallades Kannibalism, Anthropophagie. Därför befunno vi oss bland Kannibaler.

Het moest de Duivel zijn die het gereedschap om het goede te doen uitkoos. Hij nam daarvoor de nobele mensen die vrees konden kennen. Maar als de goeden konden doden noch vernietigen dan was het goede hulpeloos.

The lie felt good because I had taken control of the narrative around me. The

Wild Spirit, which art moving everywhere;Destroyer and preserver; hear, oh, hear!

Power, like a desolating pestilence,Pollutes whate'er it touches; and obedience,Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth,Makes slaves of men, and, of the human frame,A mechanized automaton.

To know nor faith, nor love nor law; to beOmnipotent but friendless is to reign.

The good want power, but to weep barren tears.The powerful goodness want: worse need for them.The wise want love; and those who love want wisdom;And all best things are thus confused with ill.

Men of England, wherefore plowFor the lords who lay ye low?

I wield the flail of the lashing hail, And whiten the green plains under, And then again I dissolve it in rain, And laugh as I pass in thunder....