Quotes About Power

During the Eisenhower administration, the Dulles brothers would finally be given full license to exercise their power in the global arena. In the name of defending the free world from Communist tyranny, they would impose an American reign on the world enforced by nuclear terror and cloak-and-dagger brutality.

Sister Vicious Power Hungry Bitch," Boom Boom replied, taking the opportunity to pin a "Dump Dianne" campaign pin on her blouse as news photographers' snapped away.

was Himmler whom the Führer had entrusted with the Final Solution, their breathtaking plan to wipe the Jewish people from the face of the earth. It was Himmler who had the nerve to justify this plan, standing before his SS generals in October 1943 and assuring them that they had "the moral right to destroy this people which wanted to destroy us," to pile up their "corpses side by side" in monuments to the Reich's power.

The biggest electric company in Germany was owned and financed by the General Electric Company of New York.

Propaganda Due,

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Our agony was the government's triumph.

Fear is a cruel master. It is not, however, unconquerable.

Her mother had always said that there was strength and power in the time right before dawn, and those who slept through it missed the best part of the day.

is that we created a government that is doing this to us. It

But what man has made, man can un-make.

Our government may at some time be in the hands of a bad man. When in the hands of a good man it is all well enough. . . . We ought to have our government so shaped that even when in the hands of a bad man we shall be safe.

If there is no struggle there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. This struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, and it may be both moral and physical, but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

We ought to have our government so shaped that even when in the hands of a bad man we shall be safe.

Everybody in the south," wrote Douglass, "wants the privilege of whipping somebody else.

Slavery does away with fathers as it does away with families," he wrote. "The order of civilization is reversed here.

immigrant poor, said Douglass, that "slavery is the only power that can prevent the laboring white man from falling to the level of the slave's poverty and degradation.

Remember that oppression hath the power to make even a wise man mad.

Wherever you are is called Here and you must treat it as a powerful stranger.

A bully can only make you feel bad about yourself if you let them.

ghost rules. "What about Wagner?

Never keep a lawyer waiting. They have friends in low and infernal places.

Apparently, for some reason known only to themselves, these people... have chosen to cling to hydrocarbon-fueled power generation well past the point at which they could have replaced it with nuclear generation.

Shit rolls downhill. Bureaucracy rolls faster.