Quotes About Power

We are not like you. We do not glory in having power over our own kind." Haghuf turned to walk away. Then as an afterthought added over his shoulder, "Or imagining that we do.

Binkie, the one and only. He can hear her rings clacking on the plastic phone, and he chuckles, envisioning with amusement the bejeweled and suntanned manicured grip his grandmother thinks she has on his balls. And she does.

If anybody really wanted to shoot the president of the United States," Kennedy told his aide Kenneth O'Donnell on the morning of November 22, "it was not a very difficult job—all one had to do was get a high building someday with a telescopic rifle, and there was nothing anybody could do to defend against such an attempt.

as a general proposition, until very recently, vice presidents have always been excluded because it is unsettling to have someone around you whose happiest moment will be when you drop dead.

Technology causes problems as well as solves problems. Nobody has figured out a way to ensure that, as of tomorrow, technology won't create problems. Technology simply means increased power, which is why we have the global problems we face today.

Much of human history has consisted of unequal conflicts between the haves and the have-nots.

We know from our recent history that English did not come to replace U.S. Indian languages merely because English sounded musical to Indians' ears. Instead, the replacement entailed English-speaking immigrants' killing most Indians by war, murder, and introduced diseases, and the surviving Indians' being pressured into adopting English, the new majority language.

Technology causes problems as well as solves problems. Nobody has figured out a way to ensure that, as of tomorrow, technology won't create problems. Technology simply means increased power, which is why we have the global problems we face today." (Interview, Sierra Magazine , May/June 2005)

Doctrine holds that white society is seething with hatred for blacks. The very reverse is true. With the best of intentions and for the best of reasons, America has done everything within its power to encourage blacks to hate whites.

I think it would be more correct to say that mass movements are powerful, and therefore have the potential to do great damage or good. The United States mobilized in a way that could be called a mass movement to fight the Second World War–and so did the Japanese. Were those mass movements good or bad? Both nations felt justified in what they did, and the rights and wrongs depend on which side you are on.

sectarian violence occurs most easily when one ethnic group is large enough to impose cultural norms in public areas but not large enough to make sure everyone abides by them.

Among the many reasons for which whites are in positions of power—better education, more experience, greater numbers, past exclusionary practices—white racial solidarity today plays practically no role. Whites are forbidden to think in terms of racial identity unless it is to think of ways to promote the interests of other races. When whites act in their own interests, they are to act strictly as individuals rather than as conscious members of a racial group.

Köyhä vihaa rikasta luonnostaan, sen on verissä. Tulee aina hetki jolloin lompakkokreivit pannaan lyhtytolppaan niin kuin sika teurauskoukkuun. Sitten sika syödään. Mutta kasvaa uusia, jotka lihovat kuin niitä ruokitaan. Kunnes kävelevät kahdella jalalla kuin sadussa.

I once saw a snake having sex with a vulture, and I thought, It's just business as usual in Washington DC.

It's true, I can't make you love me. But I can refuse to let you out of your cage.

Panno Maria, když už je nutno, abych um?el taky já, nedej bych um?el jako ten pes, dej a? um?u jednoho krásného dne na barikád? revoluce s puškou v ruce.

Neither greed for power nor thirst for glory are as dizzy as the passions of love

Don't think a woman can fully understand the power a man feels when he takes." (Witt Long)

I mean snorted MacAfee as he went on. It's not a lie, I am not calling Tyrus rex a liar I would never do that. I would never call that man anything derogatory, if only because he can kill you like 6000 different ways if he wanted to man, imagine that, it makes you wonder you know, like how many ways have he forgotten to kill people think about...

It's not quite true that history is written by the winners. It's written by the best publicists on the winning team.

Riverbank Laboratories, an idea factory christened by wartime realities. It not only forged a new science of immense power; it also spawned a love affair that spread the science and ultimately sharpened it into an antifascist weapon.

the Renaissance scholar Erasmus, who "believed in one aristocracy—the aristocracy of intellect," she wrote in a paper. "He had one faith—faith in the power of thought, in the supremacy of ideas.

doubted that men would give up their power without a vicious fight.

It might seem perverse, but the CEO is usually the last to know. With great power comes great ignorance.