power

"Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength."

"I think power is a sickness and governing is a folly for madmen."

"Societies either roll on blindly to disaster or they find the inner strength to stop themselves long enough to find ways for reform from within."

"Wealth in the hands of the holders of wealth is not capital until it controls the means of production, buys labor power, and puts it to work, continuously expanding surpluses by intensifying productiv…"

"Repetition acts as an enforcement mechanism: It makes cooperation achievable when it is not achievable in the one-shot game, even when one replaces strategic equilibrium as the criterion for achievabi…"

"Try as I will, I don't see what might exist..."

"Since money belongs to the community … it would seem that the community may control it as it wills, and therefore may make as much profit from alteration as it likes, and treat money as its own proper…"

"The purchase of any item which helps strengthen Zionism is not permissible."

"A power has risen up in the government greater than the people themselves, consisting of many and various and powerful interests, combined into one mass, and held together by the cohesive power of the…"

"A great god is Ahuramazda, who created this excellent thing which is seen, who created happiness for man, who set wisdom and capability down upon King Darius. ... By the grace of Ahuramazda I am of su…"

"More power to if they can get someone’s attention."

"By 1956, out of all the Cultural Avatars and Vectors available in 1950, THE GIRL had won. Authority. They’d won the war, in a way."

"In order to be heard by the oppressing class, one must speak as a member of it. Not only the language, but the diction. The accusation of tyranny, however well-founded in fact, is dismissed unless it …"

"In one-act pieces there should be only rubbish—that is their strength."

"Should the CIA stooge Guaido and his white supremacists grab power, it will be the 68th overthrow of a sovereign government by the United States, most of them democracies. A fire sale of Venezuela’s u…"

"Only in firm co-operation with a Great Russia will Germany have the chance of regaining her position as a world power...Britain and France fear the combination of the two land powers and try to preven…"

"The elements in The Wizard of Oz powerfully fill a void that exists inside many children. For kids of a certain age, home is everything, the center of the world. But over the rainbow, dimly guessed at…"

"If... part of the related mind-masses hang together among themselves, then these are not only immediately excited but also mediately and consequently in proportion more powerfully than the rest."

"I will remain your strongest possible advocate for EU membership and for greater influence at the top table of European diplomacy."

"I would argue for the establishment of unitary city parliaments in all our major cities. The entire population of Scotland could fit into North London and all of Wales into South London with something…"