Quotes About Power

An epistemic methodology that sees the pursuit of knowledge as entirely congruent with the search for power is a great deal more cunning than wise. It can needlessly undermine the value of knowledge in satisfying curiosity and interest; it significantly weakens one of the profound characteristics of human beings.

The avalanche has begun, it is too late for the stones to vote.

thaumaturgy

The mind is the master and the body is the servant.

ULTIMATUM, n. In diplomacy, a last demand before resorting to concessions.

QUEEN, n. A woman by whom the realm is ruled when there is a king, and through whom it is ruled when there is not.

Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.

Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.

Anoint, v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery.

Marriage, n. a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.

Mammon, n.: The god of the world's leading religion.

Consul - in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country.

Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.

The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.

Marriage: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.

Pray To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessed unworthy.

This ONLY is denied God The power to undo the past.

A computer can be more harmful than a gun and more useful than a pen.

You have no sense of what war is like. You have no idea what it means to see those you love fall. You cannot possibly understand what it is to fight for what you believe, and how sometimes you have to fight with words and dreams after all the weapons have been put away. You serve a cold god, surviving on his power for thousands of years without ever living!

But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung.

There was an iron-gray sky above a black tumbling sea; and the rain, driven by a mad wind, smote the face like a blow from a passionate hand.

We create history by our act and deeds.

Man has responsiblity, not power. Tuscarora

Arrogance is a kingdom without a crown.