Where a person has no control, he will turn to violence; either to attain control, or as an alternative to it.
Charlie HerrickOne reads the truer deeper facts of Reconstruction with a great despair. It is at once so simple and human, and yet so futile. There is no villain, no idiot, no saint. There are just men; men who crave ease and power, men who know want and hunger, men who have crawled. They all dream and strive with ecstasy of fear and strain of effort, balked of hope and hate. Yet the rich world is wide enough for all, wants all, needs all. So slight a gesture, a word, might set the strife in order, not with full content, but with growing dawn of fulfillment. Instead roars the crash of hell...
W.E.B. Du BoisTags: politics power history class race racism economy race-relations black-history reconstruction
No state can remain indifferent to another state's wresting from its people more of their rights. It must make a corresponding draft on its own people's rights, or else pay dearly for its neglect to put itself on a level...
A Power which interferes with its people only in certain respects cannot increase its warlike potential beyond certain limits. To pass them, it must revolutionize those respects and give itself fresh prerogatives.
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As every advance of Power is useful for war, so war is useful for the advance of power; war is like a sheep-dog harrying the laggard Powers to catch up their smarter fellows in the totalitarian race.
Bertrand de JouvenelTags: power war totalitarianism
the greater the power, the more terrible its responsibility.
Fyodor DostoevskyTags: power
I think the only choice that will enable us to hold to our vision is one that abandons the concept of naming enemies and adopts a concept familiar to the nonviolent tradition: naming behavior that is oppressive
Barbara DemingTags: power war enemies oppression occupy-wall-street 99-percent oppressors amusing-ourselves-to-death contructive-vs-destructive end-of-civilization end-of-culture snakes-in-suits socipaths the-military-industrial-complex
Myth: Feeding the banking sector gobs of welfare cash will bring about a recovery. Fact: Our leaders are only dedicated to preserving power
Ziad K. AbdelnourTags: power fact myth recovery banking
Everybody is equally weak on the inside, just that some present their ruins as new castles and become kings –
Simona PanovaTags: fear strength present power strong romance fiction weak weakness mystery force self-image play suspense castle gothic ruin queen young-adult powerful pretend nobody mysterious image destroy mask king everyone ghost general ruins inside outside destroyed everybody abandon gothic-romance stronghold fortress freya no-one devastated cardew fort
The key ingredient in engaging the power available from service is motive.
Richie NortonTags: power service key serve available engaging engage ingredient key-ingredient
You can overcome your circumstances or you can let your circumstances overcome you.
Richie NortonTags: power self-help control circumstance projects entrepreneurship overcome proactive free-agency
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