Explore authority, influence, and how power is gained, used, and challenged.
"It’s a women’s issue, but a lot of the women wouldn’t be having abortions if the men would step up and be a part of what they are already biologically a part of. Raising children and having children, …"
"Earlier Versions. Luther was not the first, but by far the greatest translator of the German Bible, and is as inseparably connected with it as Jerome is with the Latin Vulgate. He threw the older tran…"
"Feminism, coveting social power, is blind to women’s cosmic sexual power."
"State building can be viewed as the historical process by which groups outside of the state are able to get domains organized by the state to make rules for some set of societal fields. These rules re…"
"There are wars in this world, not because wars are the will of God but because of greed and arrogance, the lust for power and domination. There is hunger not merely because there is lack of food, but …"
"The Doomsday Machine is not sufficiently controllable. Even though it maximizes the probability that deterrence will work , it is totally unsatisfactory. One must still examine the consequences of a f…"
"It is impossible for any man, when the most favourable circumstances concur, to acquire sufficient knowledge and strength of mind to discharge the duties of a king, entrusted with uncontrolled power; …"
"The Liberal party is very much your northern Democrat, or mainstream Democratic party, a party that is less concessionary to the secessionists than the PCs, but still somewhat concessionary. And they …"
"On Barack Obama: "No one knew what the new brand actually stood for. So accomplished was the advertising that many Americans actually believed Obama shared their opposition to Bush’s wars. In fact, he…"
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"here must be no concessions to the enemy. When a man is allowed to speak because he is rich and powerful, it aggravates the crime of denying the right to the poor and humble."
"no transfer of powers without an in/out referendum without a clear choice about whether Britain stays in the EU"
"The power and force of stone reside in its mass, its weight, and its density."
"We set up government by consent of the governed, and the Bill of Rights denies those in power any legal opportunity to coerce that consent. Authority here is to be controlled by public opinion, not pu…"
"It was the ultimate possible statement of powerlessness and desperation . Nothing, absolutely nothing left, no figures, no color, nothing. Then you realize after you've painted three of them that one'…"
"I will protect my people if I live. For myself I do not fear for I have the word of Usen. Who is the White Nantan to think he can pit his power against that of Usen?"
"He realized that Florentine personified this kind of wretched life against which his whole being was in revolt. And in the same moment he understood the feeling that drew him toward her: she was his o…"
"That's a hard rule. That's a— that's a rough rule. |Brian"
"Dark forces dragged me away from the keyboard, swirling forces of irresistible intensity and power."
"I have felt it myself. The glitter of nuclear weapons. It is irresistible if you come to them as a scientist. To feel it's there in your hands, to release this energy that fuels the stars, to let it d…"
Authors on power gaining momentum today
Barack Obama
Donald Trump
Thomas Jefferson
Winston Churchill
Noam Chomsky
Warren Farrell
John Mearsheimer
Vladimir Lenin
John Kenneth Galbraith
Theodore Roosevelt
Calvin Coolidge
Benjamin Disraeli