Quotes About Power

avec ses lourdes pertes humaines, est de toutes les civilisations et de tous les temps. Les religions elles-mêmes sont souvent à l'origine de ces tueries que pourtant elles dénoncent, comme il en fut jadis au temps des croisades et des guerres de Religion, voire, aujourd'hui, de l'islamisme extrême. C'est qu'entre-temps les hommes, poussés par l'immémorial instinct de pouvoir, se sont approprié le fait religieux et en ont fait leur affaire. Au

Adossée à cette philosophie aujourd'hui dominante, la violence est partout. Depuis le célèbre

Immediately after their seizure of power, the Nazis expelled from the theatres all who were known for their progressive ideas.

revealing Jane in all her blood-soaked glory,

The trouble with anger is, it gets hold of you. And then you aren't the master of yourself anymore. Anger is. And when anger is the boss, you get unintended consequences.

There is so much darkness in Ember, Lina. It's not just outside, it's inside us, too. Everyone has some darkness inside. It's like a hungry creature. It wants and wants and wants with a terrible power. And the more you give it, the bigger and hungrier it gets.

The trouble with anger is, it gets hold of you. And then you aren't the master of yourself anymore. Anger is.

People didn't make life, so they can't destroy it. Even if we were to wipe out every bit of life in the world, we can't touch the place life comes from. Whatever made the plants and animals and people spring up in the first place will always be there, and life will spring up again.

It wasn't because they had extraordinary powers, really, but because of how well they used the ordinary powers everyone had: the power of courage, the power of kindness, the powers of curiosity and knowledge.

The idea seemed to be that if you prayed extremely hard--especially if a lot of people prayed at once--maybe God would change things. The trouble was, what if your enemy was praying, too? Which prayer would God listen to?

The sensation that seized me that morning?the twentieth of May?as I sat on my velvet cushion beside the Pope and stared down at the man standing beside my husband, was swift, irrevocable, and violent, like a dagger plunged into the heart. I trembled. I did not want it; I did not seek it; yet there it was, and I was at the mercy of it. And I knew nothing of the man who had just stolen my soul.

The world shrinks to include only two people, only one of whom -- the beloved -- has power. This inequitable distribution naturally breeds resentment and feelings of hopelessness that the dependent person dare not express for fear of alienating the necessary person even more.

O Liberty Liberty how many crimes are committed in thy name

I can't believe he's making you wait till January for an appointment." "I could threaten to bomb the school. That'd get me in quicker.

It was a genuine revelation, you see," said Aimée to the baron. "They can be killed. The real assholes can be killed.

This valley I thought was dead taught me why the origin of the world is in the wind. I can not only hear this cosmic whirlwind, I can see it...I think I'm seeing the moment when the world began with a storm.

Five or six hundred heads cut off would have assured your repose, freedom and happiness.

T'u-küelerin devletinde bayrak, alt?ndan bir kurt ba??yla süslüdür; bu sadece bir figür olmaktan ziyade, ?üphesiz alt?nla kaplanm?? gerçek bir kafatas?d?r. Hükümdar?n kap?s?n?n giri?ine yere dikilir ve yürüyen ordunun önünde ta??n?r. Bundaki amaç, yaln?zca toplanmak de?il, ayn? zamanda efsanede oldu?u gibi Kurdun halk?na liderlik etmesidir.

Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them.

Words are loaded pistols.

As psychologist Herb Goldberg reminds us in his book The Hazards of Being Male, 'The male has paid a heavy price for his masculine "privilege" and power.... He is out of touch with his emotions and his body. He is playing by the rules of the male game plan and with lemming-like purpose he is destroying himself--emotionally, psychologically, and physically.

Be careful what you wish for, not because you'll get it but because you'll be turned into the thing that can get it. It's not a process where you just ask for something and it magically appears, it's a process that breaks you down and rebuilds you into the right tool for the job.

She doesn't get to be a healer because the gods bestow powers upon her, but through the prolonged, rigorous, all-consuming struggle of her own self-healing.

A woman is at her greatest peril in the presence of a beautiful man.