Quotes About Power

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

That we should all have a say in choosing our own rulers and that those rulers 'powers over us should be limited—these principles are in obvious tension, as every society that has tried to combine liberty and democracy has discovered. Without Protestantism and its peculiar preoccupations, that strange and marvelous synthesis could never have come into being as it has.

I don't think there is any mystery to understanding the passionate feelings people have for guns. Nobody really believes it's about maintaining a militia. It's about having possession of a tool that makes a person feel powerful nearly to the point of exaltation.

Magick is the science and art of causing change to occur in conformity with the Will.

But, who is Death? A figure that harrows and wastes wherever and however it pleases. This is also a possible description of the Countess Bathory. Never did anyone wish so hard not to grow old; I mean, to die. That is why, perhaps, she acted and played the role of Death. Because, how can Death possibly die?

No puedes con el lenguaje. El lenguaje no puede por ti.

my language or my lamp my language is the priestess.

El lenguaje silencioso engendra fuego. El silencio se propaga, el silencio es fuego. Era preciso decir acerca del agua o simplemente apenas nombrarla, de modo de atraerse la palabra agua para que apague las llamas del silencio.

Un tirano es un lenguaje persistente. Los crímenes y las injusticias parecen razonables cuando se verbalizan

La libertà non è la ribellione ma piuttosto la pratica di una fantasia senza limiti all'interno delle restrizione imposte dal potere.

A grandes voces despertaron a los araucanos.

For all that I tried to be more than what I am, I am not more than what I am. It is necessary to be conscious of what we are. The greatest power of your life is to be able to help, and the greatest blessing man has is to be able to live in peace.

La espada que todo lo corta no te corta cuando te conviertes en la espada.

We know that laws ought to be obeyed only if they come out of people's sense of justice, not because the state needs them to preserve its power. Laws devised for the depravity of power are as worthless as the paper they are printed on.

At worst, she kept him around so he could make her feel better when she needed it, a winning combination of a pet and a dildo.

a good time to be thinking about all that, given that we're just about to tear a new hole in the ass of Iraq.

was. He wasn't so much jealous as he wanted Kimiko to confess that she experienced lust independent of him—the thought of her sovereign lechery turned him on, because it frightened him.

Ose?ao se gospodarem vremena i preko njega gospodarem znanja, a kako je verovao da znanje otvara vrata svakoj težnji za boljitkom, ose?ao se i gospodarem svoje sudbine.

For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.

A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.

the true choice is between losing it all and creating what we are about to lose: only this could eventually save us, in a profound sense . . . The possible awakening of the bomb is not simply 'let's do all in our power to prevent it before it's too late', but rather 'let's first build this totality (unity, community, freedom) that we are about to lose through the bomb.

Crime is a rigid, unbending master, against whom no one can be strong except by total rebellion

Ma cos'è la storia senza la politica? Una guida che cammina, cammina, con nessuno dietro che impari la strada, e per conseguenza butta via i suoi passi; come la politica senza la storia è uno che cammina senza guida.

Come inferiri, l'inchinavano anche quelli que da questi eran detti signori; ché, in que' contorni, non ce n'era uno che potesse, amille miglia, competer con lui, di nome, di ricchezze, d'aderenze e della voglia di servirsi si tutto ciò, per istar al di sopra degli altri.