Quotes About Power

When are the territorial states going to learn that they cannot possibly win against corporate states?

If God displaces the Devil, he must assume the Devil's attributes.

A managed democracy is a wonderful thing, Manuel, for the managers . . . and its greatest strength is a 'free press' when 'free' is defined as 'responsible' and the managers define what is 'irresponsible.' Do

Wherever there is power and mass to manipulate, Man can live.

Your computers must be three-phase A.C.

Havia um campo em que o homem era insuperável; ele demonstrava engenhosidade ilimitada no desenvolvimento de formas maiores e mais eficientes de matar, escravizar, abusar e se tornar um incômodo insuportável de todas as formas possíveis de si mesmo para si mesmo.

Ä°dareli bir demokrasi muhteÅŸem bir ÅŸeydir, Manuel, idare edenler için... en büyük gücü de 'Özgür'ün 'sorumluluk sahibi ' olarak tan?mland??? ve neyin 'sorumsuz ' olduÄŸunu idarecilerin belirlediÄŸi 'özgür bas?n'd?r.

No aspect of the human psyche can live in a healthy state unless it is balanced by its complementary opposite. If the masculine mind tries to live without its "other half," the feminine soul, then the masculine becomes unbalanced, sick, and finally monstrous. Power without love becomes brutality. Feeling without masculine strength becomes woolly sentimentality. When one side of human nature grows out of balance with the other, it becomes a tyranny in the soul.

Much of a man's mute yearning for a woman is his need for her light to show him - as well as her - his true nature and godhood. Every woman holds this terrible-wonderful power in her hands.

For a young woman to cope with her mother-in-law's power system is to attain feminine maturity.

Aphrodite often shows her tyrannical side and thinks her word is law.

Aphrodite energy is a valuable quality. She is in the service of personal development and wields her terrible power to make those around her grow. When it is time for growth, the old ways and the

You must understand that when you approach the unconscious you are dealing with one the most powerful and autonomous forces in human experience.

Oh, as the tragedies of Shakespeare have revealed, the fall of kings is but fodder for the riches entertainments.

Taxation is robbery based on monopoly of weapons

The ultimate weapon isn't this plague out in Vegas, or any new super H-bomb. The ultimate weapon has always existed. Every man, every woman, and every child owns it. It's the ability to say No and take the consequences.

The individual act of obedience is the cornerstone not only of the strength of authoritarian society but also of its weakness.

There is no governor anywhere; you are all absolutely free. There is no restraint that cannot be escaped. We are all absolutely free. If everybody could go into dhyana at will, nobody could be controlled — by fear of prison, by fear of whips or electroshock, by fear of death, even. All existing society is based on keeping those fears alive, to control the masses. Ten people who know would be more dangerous than a million armed anarchists.

An Enlightened Master is ideal only if your goal is to become a Benighted Slave.

The function of law and theology are the same: to keep the poor from taking back by violence what the rich have stolen by cunning.

How about the Federal Reserve, then, which has convinced millions that the paper it prints "is" "real" "money"? Prank or fraud? Or perhaps some species of magick that only other sorcerers can understand?

Adequate communication flows freely between equals. Communication between non-equals is warped and distorted by second-circuit Domination and Submission rituals perpetuating communication jam and a Game Without End.

The same would apply to a Dominican inquisitor in the middle ages who lacked the capacity to "see" witches everywhere. In such authoritarian situations, it is important to see what the Top Dogs (alpha males) see; it is inconvenient, and possibly dangerous to see what is objectively happening.

But this leads to an equal and opposite burden of omniscience upon those at the top, in the eye of the pyramid. All that is forbidden to those at the bottom — the conscious activities of perception and evaluation — is demanded of the Power Elite, the master class. They must attempt to do the seeing, hearing, smelling, etc. and all the thinking and evaluating for the whole pyramid.