676 quotes found
“All power is the same. Magic. Physical strength. Economic strength. Political strength. It all serves a single purpose-it gives its possessor a broader spectrum of choices. It creates alternative c...”
“Sometimes the words people don't say are as powerful as the ones they do.”
“My son, your ineptitude is so vast, your incompetence so profound, that I am certain you are inhabited by greater power than I have ever known.”
“Do not seek power for revenge. Seek power in order to avoid situations that would make you want revenge.”
“Democratic and aristocratic states are not in their own nature free. Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments; and even in these it is not always found. It is there only when t...”
“Power revealed is power sacrificed. The truly powerful exert their influence in ways unseen, unfelt. Some would say that a thing visible is a thing vulnerable.”
“The first step toward power is to accept reality”
“As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.”
“THAT'S WHAT POWERFUL MEN DO TO THIS COUNTRY - IT'S A BEAUTIFUL, SEXY, BREATHLESS COUNTRY, AND POWERFUL MEN USE IT TO TREAT THEMSELVES TO A THRILL! THEY SAY THEY LOVE IT BUT THEY DON'T MEAN IT. THEY...”
“There is a special place in hell for women that will not help one another.”
“Power is the sum total of the wills of the mass, transfered by express or tactic agreement to rulers chosen by the masses.”
“Character is power.”
“Give a truly good person power, and theyre still a good person. Give a bad person power, and theyre still a bad person. The question is always about the person in between. The one that isnt evil, o...”
“The thing is, I used to like that: feeling special because I knew something no one else did. It's a kind of power, isn't it, knowing a secret? But lately I don't like it so much, knowing this. It's...”
“To be able to shit on people before they get a chance to shit on you. That's power.”
“When you have no real power, go public -- really public. The public is where the real power is.”
“If you never have sex you never gain a sense of power. You never gain a voice or an identity of your own. Sex is the act that separates us from our parents. Children from adults. It's by having sex...”
“Taking power away from a man is a dangerous thing. Someone always pays.”
“One of our people in the Native community said the difference between white people and Indians is that Indian people know they are oppressed but dont feel powerless. White people dont feel oppresse...”
“Power lacks moral or principles. It only has interests.”
