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Quotes About Power

Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact, can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom.
~ Wole Soyinka
A tiger does not shout its tigritude, it acts.
~ Wole Soyinka
A tiger doesn't proclaim his tigritude, he pounces
~ Wole Soyinka
The man dies in all those that keep silent.
~ Wole Soyinka
Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress truth.
~ Wole Soyinka
For now, let us simply observe that the assault on human dignity is one of the prime goals of the visitation of fear, a prelude to the domination of the mind and the triumph of power
~ Wole Soyinka
O tigre não precisa de proclamar a sua trigritude. Salta sobre a sua presa e exerce-se tigre.
~ Wole Soyinka
A tiger doesn't proclaim its tigerness; it jumps on its prey
~ Wole Soyinka
Handel understands effect better than any of us -- when he chooses, he strikes like a thunderbolt.
~ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
make strong women weak and weak men strong
~ Wolfgang Blass
Entonces el destino del que tanto hablaban los ases era algo que ellos habían predeterminado por él y no él mismo.
~ Wolfgang Hohlbein
Before capitalism will go to hell, then, it will for the foreseeable future hang in limbo, dead or about to die from an overdose of itself but still very much around, as nobody will have the power to move its decaying body out of the way.
~ Wolfgang Streeck
Yet the force developed, if you know how to make use of cosmic energy, is greater
~ Wong Kiew Kit
than all the sandbags and dumb-bells put together.
~ Wong Kiew Kit
Don't forget to swing hard, in case you hit the ball.
~ Woodie Held
Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.
~ Woodrow T. Wilson
It is like writing history with lightning. And my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.
~ Woodrow Wilson
Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance.
~ Woodrow Wilson
The history of liberty is a history of resistance.
~ Woodrow Wilson
A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.
~ Woodrow Wilson
Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.
~ Woodrow Wilson
You deal in the raw material of opinion, and, if my convictions have any validity, opinion ultimately governs the world.
~ Woodrow Wilson
Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.
~ Woodrow Wilson
Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of government is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is the history of the limitation of government, not the increase of it.
~ Woodrow Wilson