power

"Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk."

"The horse carries the rider with power and speed. But the rider controls the horse. Talent carries the artist to great heights with power and speed. But the artist directs his talent. That is the elem…"

"What the planning authority would have to know would not be the mere totals but the distinct, peculiar conditions prevailing in each enterprise which affect the information about values transmitted th…"

"You can think of my films as cautionary tales, but you might even think of them as despairing tales, because at least in a cautionary tale, you have this idea that by listening to the story you can as…"

"My wife, I might add, is a saint. Either that, or maybe she is insane."

"I was interested in making a different kind of instrument. And I wanted, of course, to make an apparatus that would be controlled in space, exploiting electrical fields, and that would use little ener…"

"The effects of the ideas of Roosevelt's ‘new deal’ is most powerful, and in my opinion they are socialist ideas"

"Anyhow, it is a different situation now to what it was then; Clemenceau had power; I shall wait until Winston is bust."

"When he is most powerful, nothing does he become."

"In our times, to refrain from mentioning genocide, racism, cultural schizophrenia, sexual exploitation, and the systematic starvation of entire populations is itself a political act. ... As our bankru…"

"Naked power has its limitations, since power is a generator of corruption and corruption in its turn tends to dilute the effectiveness of power."

"Once again the powers of light and good have triumphed over the media!"

"Intercourse is a world that moves through the sexed world of dominance and submission. It moves in descending circles, not in a straight line, and as in a vortex each spiral goes down deeper."

"The most powerful influence exercised by the Arabs on general natural physics was that directed to the advances of chemistry; a science for which this race created a new era. Besides making laudatory …"

"What you need to do is take control of things. Don't wait for events to catch up with you; go and meet them head-on!"

"Harry Dresden: You can never tell how someone is going to handle power — not until you hand it to them and see what they do with it."

"A man is a man, on a throne or in a pigsty."

"War crimes are only committed by defeated powers."

"She was in my poetry seminar at Columbia and I felt that then her poetry was tremendously involved with a kind of female anger but also victimization which I think is something that really has to come…"

"It was truly revealing. The strength of the intervention, the intensity of colors and the happiness of this work, has never left me."