Quotes About Power

Engineers, scientists, and doctors merely exploit their capital—their diplomas—as middle-class employers exploit a factory, or as nobles used to exploit their titles of nobility.

We take men for what they are worth-and that is why we hate the government of man by man

In olden times, when a king sent his vogt to a village, the peasants received him with flowers in one hand, and arms in the other, and asked him--which law he intended to apply: the one he found in the village, or the one he brought with him?

Nine-tenths of the great fortunes made in the United States are (as Henry George has shown in his Social Problems) the result of knavery on a large scale, assisted by the state.

as long as there are capitalists, these abuses of power will be perpetuated. It is precisely the state, the would-be benefactor, that has given to the companies that monopoly and those rights upon us which they possess today... has it not sent its soldiers against railwaymen on strike?

In fact, we know full well today that it is futile to speak of liberty as long as economic slavery exists.

most men and women, by birth or nature, lack the means to advance in wealth or power, but all have the ability to advance in knowledge.

Power is the near neighbour of necessity.

Should one in boldness say, Lo, I am God! Besides the One--Eternal--Infinite, Then let him from the throne he has usurped Put forth his power and form another globe, Such as we dwell in, saying, This is mine. Nor only so, but in this new domain For ever let him dwell. if this he can, Then verily he is a god proclaimed.

Your best relief is to realize you are not a god. Nobody says that they are a god, but many people believe that they have the ability of God to control everything around them. Therefore, they regret that things do not happen in the way that they would like.

Justice was like coloured balls in a magician's hand, changing colour and shape all the time beneath the light of politics.

407Justice was like coloured balls in a magician's hand, changing colour and shape all the time beneath the light of politics.

In the final analysis, the cops work for the Party system, and private investigators work for their clients. That's why even the term 'PI' is still taboo in the official media.

To be anything but kind in the face of male desire was dangerous. Nobody had to teach us this lesson—it was just something we knew from the earliest days on the playground.

To be anything but kind in the face of male desire was dangerous.

you possess the innate power to create transformation and change—personally, communally, and globally. Bring forth your Het-Hru warrior queen skills and you will be victorious in remaking yourself into a divine vision. Now is your time—the time to reclaim your self and unleash your power as a Sacred Woman.

Queen Elizabeth I

Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are gone but a declaration of our hopes for the future, and for the years I may, by God's Grace and Mercy, be given to reign and serve you as your Queen.

What I wanted most of all was to use sex as a weapon to allure, subjugate, and, if possible, destroy the personality of others.

All the golden societies of the past to which historians point and turn their wistful smiles have had what patience-players would call a discard pile. They operated on two levels with a slave class who worked, ate, slept, and died and a leisured class who reclined on one elbow and spoke. Naturally it is from this latter group that we learn what life at that time was like. It often makes charming reading but we can hardly take it to be the whole truth.

Charisma is the ability to influence without logic.

Özgürlüklerinin korunmas? için kral?n iyi niyetine güvenmek zorunda b?rak?ld?klar? ölçüde, özgür uyruklar olarak deÄŸil, tutsaklar olarak yaÅŸamaya mahkûm olacaklar...

Keepin' you at a disadvantage, is a advantage I intend to keep.

two grinning Cheshire cats as the balance of power rolls over her