Quotes About Power

There is a moonlight note in the Moonlight Sonata; there is a thunder note in an angry sky.

Vandals listen only when others are stronger. If vandals are equal or stronger, their word is the last word.

The thing that [Afrikans] must remember is that everything [White people] produce has a political purpose.

We were social liars, amusing ourselves at dinner parties. Making it even more wicked and fun, this was the New York world of literati—people both brilliant and smug. We goofed on all of them. Our lies were power, we imagined, although why I'm not sure.

One of them told me that the United States Constitution gave Chad Lowe the right to bear arms." Junior paused."I asked him if it gave me the same right. He stopped laughing then, told me to try it and see.

I know knives and guns are not the answer. Once we get a fight like that started, who will have the power to stop it? How many deaths will be enough?

Men must stop being jealous of their power and generously allow freedom and responsibility to others. The reward is harmonious families and society.

Gli uomini per loro natura sono portati a disprezzare i deboli e lusingare i forti.

Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master.

The moon does not fight. It attacks no one. It does not worry. It does not try to crush others. It keeps to its course, but by its very nature, it gently influences. What other body could pull an entire ocean from shore to shore? The moon is faithful to its nature and its power is never diminished.

The arbitrary rule of a just and enlightened prince is always bad. His virtues are the most dangerous and the surest form of seduction: they lull a people imperceptibly into the habit of loving, respecting, and serving his successor, whoever that successor may be, no matter how wicked or stupid.

The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.

The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.

Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.

Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.

Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.

L'adoption de l'anglais a, évidemment, entraîné une critique importante : celle de privilégier la langue du colonisateur au détriment de celle des colonisés. Cette accusation a couru tout au long des décennies, mais elle repose sur un vœu qui est souvent resté pieux, celui de promouvoir les littératures en langues vernaculaires.

To take command, one must first create the illusion that command is already yours.

Me, die?" Nicola said with a breath of scorn. "You should know by now that it's not luck that keeps me alive, but my ill temper. Both God and the Devil are afraid of me.

Turning in his saddle, Theobald looked at the servants behind them. "We ride on through. If any man reaches for you, kill him." Then without so much as a by-your-leave, he leaned over and snatched Johanna's reins from her grasp, and spurred his horse into motion. As her palfrey complacently followed where he led, Johanna turned her gaze downward to glare at the saddletree and indulged herself in hatred—for him, for his master, but mostly for this

México ha transitado del presidencialismo omnipotente a la presidencia incompetente.

Lo que Martha Sahagún nunca entendió es que no se le criticaba por mujer sino por abusiva.

Que el PRI creó instituciones pero también pervirtió sus objetivos.

Gracias al PRI la impunidad se volvió una costumbre.