What better way for a ruling class to claim and hold power than to pose as the defenders of the nation.
Christopher HitchensTag: politics power history class government conflict
The worst thing about being a great power is when you're not one any more. It takes centuries to get over it.
Ben EltonTag: power
But it doesn't take a thousand men to open a door, my lord."
"It might to keep it open.
Tag: fear power diplomacy authority
At the banquet table of nature, there are no reserved seats. You get what you can take, and you keep what you can hold. If you can't take anything, you won't get anything, and if you can't hold anything, you won't keep anything. And you can't take anything without organization.
A. Philip RandolphTag: politics power organization gain take keep
What was the point in satin and lace if it didn't make a man struggle to speak?
Alexandra IvyTag: power women lust submission undergarments
A mans life is interesting primarily when he has failed. I well know. For its a sign that he tried to surpass himself.
Georges ClemenceauTag: greatness power persistence try interesting
Power is given only to him who dares to stoop and take it ... one must have the courage to dare.
Fyodor DostoevskyI live in the faith that there is a Presence and Power greater than I am that nurtures and supports me in ways I could not even imagine. I know that this Presence is All knowing and All Power and is Always right where I am
Ernest Shurtleff HolmesTag: power faith support presence-of-god
Power,' as the sociologist Nachman Ben-Yehuda writes, 'enters the picture in two ways': the first entails constructing and legitimizing the moral system itself; the second, in enforcing it. In this view, 'deviants are those who simply do not have enough power to prevent others from defining them as such'.
Shuli BarzilaiAs Atwood concludes after a random and informal sampling, men and women differ markedly in the 'scope of their threatenability': 'Why do men feel threatened by woman?' I asked a male friend of mine....'[M]en are bigger, most of the time...and they have on the average a lot more money and power.' 'They're afraid women will laugh at them,' he said. 'Undercut their world view.' Then I asked some women students in a quickie poetry seminar I was giving, 'Why do women feel threatened by men?' 'They're afraid of being killed,' they said'.
Shuli BarzilaiTag: humor gender power men women
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