power

"It is not crazy to think that powerful people do some pretty horrible things. And maybe they get out of hand. Maybe it just gets away from them. It snowballs."

"The blare of the trumpets grew louder, like a deep golden tide surge, like the soft booming of the evening tides against the silver beaches of Valusia. The throng shouted, women flung roses from the r…"

"is often a hostile act, often an exercise of power over somebody else."

"Less than total control is no control at all. You will obey my instructions, Mr. Ravel. In every detail. Or I will scrap the project."

"How do you do it? How do you stay so strong?" "I fake it."

"I'm against the draft. I believe we should have a professional military; it might be smaller, but it would be more effective."

"No matter what we choose, our unwavering stance is to enhance the safety of nuclear power generation in the country."

"I have... something. It'll clear up. Might take me with it, but we'll see."

"We live in a three-dimensional world, and our brains are organized in three dimensions, so we might as well compute in three dimensions. ...Right now, chips, even though they're very dense, are flat."

"There she was, Beer's Unity, with almost every sail set and filled so that she appeared to be leaning forward into the surging spray beneath her beakhead. The huge broad-pendant straight out like pain…"

"We think that a powerful and vigorous movement is impossible without differences — "true conformity" is possible only in the cemetery."

"A strong defense is the surest way to peace. Strength makes détente attainable. Weakness invites war, as my generation—my generation—knows from four very bitter experiences. Just as America's will for…"

"We have only one global hegemonic power. It is not accumulating territory: it is trying to accumulate influence and control."

"New South Wales did not begin as a penal colony; it is better to think of it beginning as a colony of convicts... Why wasn't early New South Wales a penal colony? The short answer is that British offi…"

"You have to have funny faces and words, you can't just have words. It is a powerful thing, and I think that's why it's hard for people to imagine that women can do that, be that powerful."

"Things may be achieved by means of authority that cannot be achieved by means of the Quran."

"I believe that world literature has it in its power to help mankind, in these its troubled hours, to see itself as it really is, notwithstanding the indoctrinations of prejudiced people and parties. W…"

"Circumstances have been such, that I have lived almost entirely secluded for some time. Those who are much in earnest and with single minds devoted to any great object in life, must find this occasion…"

"Idiot, n. A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling. The Idiot's activity is not confined to any special field of thought or acti…"

"You have to be! You might get shot!"