Quotes About Power

El verbo reprimir es el comodín del siglo veinte.

Tout s'expliquait : à la compagnie Yumimoto, Dieu était le président et le vice-président était le Diable. Fubuki, elle, n'était ni Diable ni Dieu: c'était une Japonaise.

En realidad, Dios era la encarnación de las fuerzas. También la más paradójica de las fuerzas: ¿existe acaso algo más extraño que ese implacable poder que emana de lo que no se mueve?

C'est vous, désormais, qui sélectionnerez les prisonniers. C'est vous qui choisirez ceux qui restent et ceux qui partent. L'usage du mot « mort » était soigneusement évité.

Avanzó hacia mí con Hiroshima en el ojo derecho y Nagasaki en el izquierdo.

You find the most outrageous deviants in the countries with the most authoritarian systems.

Elle marcha vers moi, avec Hiroshima dans l'oeil droit et Nagasaki dans l'oeil gauche.

L'examen de l'édifiant langage d'autrui m'amena à cette conclusion: parler était un acte aussi créateur que destructeur. Il valait mieux faire très attention avec cette invention.

Io credo nel nemico. Le prove dell'esistenza di Dio sono deboli e bizantine, le prove del suo potere ancora più inconsistenti. Le prove dell'esistenza del nemico interiore sono evidenti e quelle del suo potere schiaccianti. Credo nel nemico perché, tutti i giorni e tutte le notti, lo incontro sul mio cammino. Il nemico è quello che dall'interno distrugge tutto ciò che vale.

Ainsi, en cette journée terrible où le monde entier tremblait à l'idée de la guerre imminente, un vieillard adipeux, paralytique et désarmé, avait réussi à détourner du Golfe l'attention d'une poignée et prêtres médiatiques.

Si amas a Dios, no tendrás miedo de nada ni de nadie, porque nada puedes perder y todas las fuerzas del cosmos, serían impotentes para quitarte tu heredad.

I don't know what to say." "Say yes, Mistress McLeod." Ada shook her head. "I can't allow you to come calling, Mr. Bevins." "I see." He shook his head. "No, I don't see. I thought, that is . . . Why not?

There is a perception across the Middle East that America is weakened. I believe the perception is wrong. The United States remains the world's mightiest military, economic and diplomatic power by far, with reach and abilities beyond rival.

I voted against H.R. 1119, which would weaken emissions standards for coal refuse power plants.

President Obama's consistent agenda has been to weaken the United States and our allies in pursuit of a more 'balanced' global power structure.

Every dollar cut from the price of oil weakens the enemies of freedom and strengthens America.

Men are actually the weaker sex.

The guardianship of the weaker sex has survived in the family law which still states, 'And he shall be your master.'

If you destroy the presidency and make it an errand boy for Congress, we're going to be a much weaker and more divided nation.

Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker.

It is not infrequent to hear men declaim loudly upon liberty, who, if we may judge by the whole tenor of their actions, mean nothing else by it but their own liberty - to oppress without control, or the restraint of laws, all who are poorer and weaker than themselves.

Unrestrained liberalism only makes the strong stronger and the weak weaker and excludes the most excluded.

There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.

Plutocrats were the chief beneficiaries of so-called neoliberalism and the suite of political changes it brought beginning in the late 1970s - deregulation, weaker protection for unions, the shareholder value movement, and the subsequent inflation of executive compensation.