power

"If one assumes, as I do, that battery is caused by the belief permeating this culture that hierarchical rule and coercive authority are natural, then all our relationships tend to be based on power an…"

"Here it is—the might, the power, the energy, the sadness, the glory, the youthfulness of our lands."

"Frequently Lenin identified state capitalism and socialism... In Towards the Seizure of Power, he writes: “Socialism is nothing but state capitalist monopoly made to benefit the whole people; by this …"

"The very loss of our church establishment, though, as in all human institutions, some defects may be found in it, would in itself be attended with the most fatal consequences. No prudent man dares has…"

"When you control communication, you can hide anything you want."

"Bandwagoning is a strategy for the weak."

"The strengthening of behavior which results from reinforcement is appropriately called "conditioning". In operant conditioning we "strengthen" an operant in the sense of making a response more probabl…"

"She is an incredible singer and entertainer. But what made her win so meaningful was the way she turned her victory in the Song Contest into an electrifying moment of human rights education. Conchita …"

"That the government's power under the Taft-Hartley Act to stop a strike by injunction so clearly strengthens the hand of the employer--even though it is used only when a strike threatens the national …"

"Only a fool wasted energy on things he could not control."

"The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers."

"Superman represents an instinctive problem that we are all born and grown up with, that we can fly ─ after all, we can fly now; we couldn't before ─ and that we can carry on all kinds of scientific in…"

"Tommy Hawkins, Baylor's teammate for six seasons and opponent for four declared to the San Francisco Examiner that "ound for pound, no one was ever as great as Elgin Baylor." He also said, "Elgin cert…"

"The ranchers want to keep us divided in order to keep us weak. Many of us have signed individual "work contracts" with the ranchers or contractors, contracts in which they had all power. These contrac…"

"Anwar Sheikh, for example, was a typical Muslim in 1947. He even killed three Hindus in the back-streets of Lahore during the post-partition riots and felt proud of performing a jihadic act. But once …"

"Attempt nothing above thy strength!"

"When once enthusiasm has been turned into ridicule, everything is undone except money and power."

"The proletariat needs state power, a centralized organisation of force, an organisation of violence, both to crush the resistance of the exploiters and to lead the enormous mass of the population - th…"

"Perhaps if we thought for a second of the classic, simple elegance of the Spanish lady it might help us to be "simply" ourselves."

"It might as well be said, "Who drives fat oxen should himself be fat."