power

"It’s easy—very easy—to slay a ruler. But it’s very difficult to prevent a worse one from coming to his place."

"From a few basic rules you can generate a cosmos."

"That immense framework and planking of concepts to which the needy man clings his whole life long in order to preserve himself is nothing but a scaffolding and toy for the most audacious feats of the …"

"I suppose you might call me the sophisticated type. I like to act with dialogue. Not with grunts."

"We must give the system sufficient factors of stability to enable it to work; but we must not assume that these forces are so powerful as to prevent the system from being liable to fluctuations. There…"

"Shall we be despised by foreign powers for hesitating so long at a word?"

"Don’t you wish you could rise powerfully above your time and name? I’m sure we all try, but here we are, always slipping and falling down into them, speaking their narrow language, though the subject,…"

"I got my pecs, I got limos, I got bitches, and all my limo's powered by bitch juice, and my spare pecs are in the limo." … "I'm gonna fuck you up. I'm gonna dig up your dad, and shove him up your mum …"

"Unless Parliament has conferred upon the Court that power in language which is unmistakable, the Court is not to assume that Parliament intended to do that which so seriously affect foreigners who are…"

"Further, I have powerful enemies in academe, esp. in the US, and they will gladly exploit any slander they expect to get away with, in this case slander invested with Harvard authoritativeness. They h…"

"It was a treaty which might have been signed by a vanquished Power as far as British interests were concerned."

"I have gone to a safe house, as they say, so I might as well have a different name"

"Licker talks mighty loud w'en it gits loose from de jug."

"Data processing system programmed by instruction and associated control words including word address modification. United States Patent 3202971"

"The idea of atomic energy is illusionary but it has taken so powerful a hold on the minds, that although I have preached against it for twenty-five years, there are still some who believe it to be rea…"

"Photographers are the new Brahmins: we have no volition when they rule us."

"A third kind of semantic awareness is an extension of the consciousness of abstracting, namely an awareness of varying levels of abstraction. Words vary in the degree to which they correspond to verif…"

"The economically powerful big bourgeoisie, in itself, represents an infintesimal minority of the nation. To enforce its domination, it must ensure a definite mutual relationship with the petty bourgeo…"

"Lord Acton said power corrupts, but PowerPoint corrupts absolutely."

"The effective exploitation of his powers of abstraction must be regarded as one of the most vital activities of a competent programmer."