power

"Benefiting and hurting others are ways of exercising one's power upon others; that is all one desires in such cases. One hurts those whom one wants to feel one's power, for pain is a much more efficie…"

"The standard bearers have grown weak in the defense of their priceless heritage, and the powers of darkness have been strengthened thereby. Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character; it becom…"

"Defiance to constituted authority leaped like a spark from one flammable area to another, growing in heat as it went."

"Decisions of this Court do not have equal intrinsic authority."

"Physical ultimacy suggests the possibility of relations with others as well as with one's Self that are far-reaching, demanding that we stretch our physical, imaginative, psychic powers beyond the lim…"

"Men may be natural risk-takers, but the increased confidence and surefootedness that we are recognizing as manly courage is the product of constant testing. The chest-thumping of untested men is hardl…"

"There is a powerful expression of our yearning. But now that we have the revolutionary spirit, we must not lose sight of the brotherhood awareness. Temper the revolutionary spirit. Culture identificat…"

"The United States is not going in there to save the oppressed. If we wanted to save the oppressed we could have supported the nonviolent movement instead of selling them out at Dayton. Any kind of tur…"

"Few people of the Commonwealth fully realised that the European crisis might involve hostilities in Australian waters – that war might be something that would come to Australia, and not merely somethi…"

"Just as the human population was starting its unprecedented growth spurt in the late eighteenth century, this was published. It's a first edition of an essay on population by the English clergyman Tho…"

"I am firmly convinced, as I have already said, that to effect any great social improvement, it is sympathy rather than self-interest, the sense of duty rather than the desire for self-advancement, tha…"

"Anecdotes are sometimes the best vehicles of truth, and if striking and appropriate are often more impressive and powerful than argument."

"Sexism is discounting the female experience of powerlessness; the new sexism is discounting the male experience of powerlessness."

"The midwife bustled out to the four in the antechamber and announced that the Almighty had seen fit to bless milady with a son."

"Every menial condition is bearable as long as one can exercise authority over one's work and be assured that the job is permanent."

"The bureaucrat was sensitive to this kind of friction. It arose wherever the moving edge of technology control touched on local pride."

"There's a subterranean impetus towards pornography so powerful that half the business world is juiced by the sort of half sex that one finds in advertisements."

"The intention is to tell a story, to create a sonic world for us, a sonic painting, for us to walk into, without having to see her. She's transcending that. She's choosing to transcend that. And that'…"

"In this world that destroys me, the only thing that I can do is to live my weakness. That weakness is my only strength."

"“A resolve to do whatever proper thing it takes separates the weak from the strong. The strong are determined to do whatever possible and proper thing to get to their goal."