Quotes About Power

When you put gas in your car you are making a political statement, because you are supporting the empires that control and continue the destruction of some countries.

The ones who most shape the world are those who are not exposed, who can't be seen; unknown, opaque beings about whom almost no one knows anything. Like the hidden man in the story, except that instead of living a passive vegetable existence, they plot and weave webs in the shadows.

Los hombres tenemos la capacidad de meter miedo a las mujeres con una mera inflexión de la voz o una frase amenazadora y fría, nuestras manos son más fuertes y aprietan desde hace siglos.

Why do you think politicians send soldiers to the wars they declare, if, of course, they still go to the bother of declaring them. . . . mediation, keeping a distance from the actual events and being privileged enough not to have to witness them.

Callar y hablar son formas de intervenir en el futuro.

Wir Männer sind imstande, Frauen allein schon durch einen veränderten Tonfall oder mit einem drohenden und kaltschnäuzigen Satz Angst zu machen, unsere Hände sind starker und drücken seit Jahrhunderten zu.

Ha nem bírjuk levenni a szemünket valamirÅ'l, az olyan érzés, mintha irányítanának, nekünk pedig engedelmeskednünk kellene; már-már megalázó.

valójában bárki megsemmisíthet bennünket, ahogyan meg is hódíthat bárki, és ebben rejlik törékenységünk lényege.

la historia está demasiado llena de pequeños abusos y vilezas mayúsculas

Het is de verschrikkelijke kracht van het heden, dat het verleden meer veplettert naarmate het zich er verder van verwijdert, en het bovendien vervalst zonder dat het verleden zijn mond kan opendoen, protesteren, tegenspreken of iets weerleggen

Translation has been used, and should be used, to resist or redirect colonial or postcolonial power.

Translation has been used to oppress to ways in which it has been or can be used to fight oppression, to liberate minds and bodies.

Translation in terms of power struggle: not a simple process for achieving equivalence but a conflict a question of 'bind or be bound', 'chain or be chained', 'capture or be taken captive

Companies with new technologies are free to disrupt almost any industry they choose—journalism, television, music, manufacturing—so long as they don't disrupt the financial operating system churning beneath it all. Hell

The folks contributing their automobiles and driving labor to Uber, or their property and hosting to Airbnb, make less than minimum-wage employees and don't own a piece of the company even though they constitute the infrastructure. Only money talks.

They're controlling.

Are you the owner of this car? A cop has something you don't have, something you gave him earlier. No, I'm just delivering it to Oklahoma City for a lady. Do you have plates for this car? A cop needn't be vicious, but he can be so, safely. Just those stickers. Do you have the registration? Presidents and premiers can annihilate millions, but only a cop can explain away your solitary murder.

Beware the abuse of Power. Both by those we disagree with, as well as those we may agree with

Socialists know that as long as the family remains strong, socialism cannot flourish. So, there's an ongoing attempt to subjugate the home to the government.

El poder guarda una relación directa con el grado de unificación. Por ello, un verdadero líder[4] es aquel que logra establecerse en la Conciencia de Unidad, después de atravesar los estados intermedios de distorsión de la lattice.

We live in a world of guided missiles and misguided men.

Knowledge is power, Bane. My purpose is to give you that knowledge. It is up to you to figure out how best to use it.

One Master and one apprentice; one to embody the power, the other to crave it

The dark side is about survival. It's about unleashing your inner power. It glorifies the strength of the individual.