Quotes About Power

Man is ignorant of the nature of his own being and powers. Even his idea of his limitations is based on experience of the past. There is therefore no reason to assign theoretical limits to what he may be, or what he may do. — Aleister Crowley, Magick

This is why Stephen tells the fatuous Englishman, Haines, that the Irish artist is the servant of two masters—the imperial British State and the Roman Catholic Church. In this sense also, the dead live: the Irish writer of Joyce's day made his obedience to the dead invaders and traitors who made Ireland a colony of Rome and of England, or else he was forced to choose Joyce's path of exile: as did Shaw and O'Casey and Beckett and a dozen lesser lights along with Joyce.

REALITY" IS THE TEMPORARY RESULTANT OF CONTINUOUS STRUGGLES BETWEEN RIVAL GANGS OF PROGRAMMERS.

One knows that a god is in the temple when, after contemplating the coherence of the structure, one is seized, violently, by the power and beauty of it, as by a light or flame or an effulgence. This illumination is a discharge of compressed energy and information.

Nobody up there is a friend of yours; nobody up there wants you to have what you would call freedom. The purpose of "government" is to produce consumers and workers who will keep the cost of labor down, and the profits high for the owners . . .

So EMIC realities are very powerful. Six million Jews died because of an EMIC realtiy. That reality was as real as the guns and bombs of the war because that reality was believed in.

Are you going to shake my hand,or am I going to rip your heart out?

Candy nodded absently. "Okay," she said. "What shall I wear?" "A gun," I said.

smiled at me again, a smile perfectly capable of launching a thousand ships and very likely to burn the topless towers of Ilium. We

To kill a man you need three things: the gun and the balls?" "We can get the gun okay

Freedom of the press is a flaming sword," I said. "Use it wisely, hold it high, guard it well.

Freedom of the press is a flaming sword. Use it wisely, hold it high, guard it well.

You ever read Machiavelli?" I said. "I imagine somebody mentioned him to me at Harvard." "He argued that it is better to be feared than loved," I said.

A pig is a pig," she said. "Whether he's public or private, he works for the same people." "Next time you're in trouble," I said, "call a hippie.

A way of living better is to make the decisions you need to make based on what you can control. When you can.

Money makes the world go round, darlin'. And sex makes the trip worthwhile. Sex

The rich really are very different," Tyler Costigan was saying. "Especially if they are also unscrupulous." ... "They have always gotten what they wished, and after a while they think they are supposed to. If they have a problem they hire someone to solve it. And they become ever more contemptuous of people who cannot. They even become contemptuous of people who have problems. And eventually they are contemptuous of everyone and care only about what they want.

It's better to be feared than loved. Because you can't make them love you. But you can make them fear you.

So, in real-world democracy, well-informed citizens are politically at the mercy of their irrational and ignorant fellow citizens. Knowing this, politicians and officials strategically cater to majority irrationality, and, once in power, they govern for the sake of gaining reelection.

As she reached the landing, the thunder came. The whole house seemed to shake with it.

A lion may die of an ass's kick.

The power of the night, the press of the storm, the post of the foe; where he stands, the Arch Fear in a visible form, yet, the strong man must go.

O poder do Homem deve exceder o seu alcance. Senão, para que serviria o céu?

Like a god going through his world, there stands One mountain for a moment in the dusk.