676 quotes found
“It is true that words have power, and one of the things they are able to do is get out of someones mouth before the speaker has the chance to stop them.”
“The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it.”
“There is power and there is power, my dear. My power can be vast, in the right places.”
“You can measure the true strength of a man by how well he controls others, but you measure his true power by how well he controls himself”
“Standing on a street corner waiting for no one is power.”
“Powerful people have no regrets.”
“Truth and trust are the means by which civilization holds off barbarism.”
“Find people who share your values, and you'll conquer the world together.”
“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.”
“Everyone has the revolver of resignation in his pocket.”
“I always looked upon the acts of racist exclusion, or insult, as pitiable, for the other person. I never absorbed that. I always thought that there was something deficient about such people. ”
“The power behind words lies with the person.”
“It is excellent / To have a giant's strenght / But it is tyrannous / To use it like a giant(Isabella)”
“People with power always take advantage of those without power.”
“A voice cannot carry the tongue and the lips that gave it wings. Alone must it seek the ether. And alone and without his nest shall the eagle fly across the sun.”
“You have more power than you think. Be careful what you do with it.”
“The higher a man stands on the social ladder, the greater the number of people he is connected with, the more power he has over other people, the more obvious is the predestination and inevitabilit...”
“You may be a lady but you are still the man!”
“There is no power relation without the correlative constitution of a field of knowledge, nor any knowledge that does not presuppose and constitute at the same time power relations”
“They were conquerors, and for that you want only brute force--nothing to boast of, when you have it, since your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others.”
