It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority. For there is a reserve of latent power in the masses which, if it is called into play, the minority can seldom resist. But from the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason.
John Emerich Edward Dalberg-ActonStichwörter: power
Stupidity isn't the only thing humans carry inside of them. I'll show you that we also have the power to purify.
Yellow TanabeStichwörter: strength power man qualities humans impact
Fear will paralyze you and prohibit growth
Michelle Cook-HallStichwörter: love power joy hope christ hopeful-and-encouraging
There are two kinds of women, those who want power in the world and those who want power in bed.
Jacqueline Kennedy OnassisStichwörter: power women world
Democratic and aristocratic states are not in their own nature free. Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments; and even in these it is not always found. It is there only when there is no abuse of power. But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.
MontesquieuStichwörter: power
Power and profit structures're out of cahoots with current technology. Aware of new inventions, corporations put them aside, waiting for competitive reasons until they're obliged to use new gimmicks.
John CageStichwörter: power society technology profit corporations
One morning indeed, I felt a sudden misgiving that she not only had left the house but had gone for good: I had just heard the sound of a door which seemed to me to be that of her room. On tiptoe I crept towards the room, opened the door, stood upon the threshold. In the dim light the bedclothes bulged in a semi-circle, that must be Albertine who, with her body bent, was sleeping with her feet and face to the wall. Only, overflowing the bed, the hair upon that head, abundant and dark, made me realise that it was she, that she had not opened her door, had not stirred, and I felt that this motionless and living semi-circle, in which a whole human life was contained and which was the only thing to which I attached any value, I felt that it was there, in my despotic possession.
Marcel ProustIt is passing strange that our philosophers of the Revolutionary period should have formed their conception of a free society by reference to societies where everyone was not free - where, in fact, the vast majority were not free. It is no less strange that they never stopped to ask whether perhaps the characters which they so much admired were not made possible by the existence of a class which was not free. Rousseau, in whose philosophy were many things, was fully conscious of this difficulty: "Must we say that liberty is possible only on a basis of slavery? Perhaps we must.
Bertrand de JouvenelStichwörter: liberty power slavery rousseau
Power is a bloody mirage. The closer you seem to get the further away it is
Joe AbercrombieAs many roads down as up, and the roads down as slippery as the others.
Robert JordanStichwörter: power up roads down slopes
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