#power

Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun. ↗

— Jean Genet

#end #gun #image #may #power

What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power. ↗

— Henry George

#civilization #destroyed #distribution #every #power

All respect for the office of the presidency aside, I assumed that the obvious and unadulterated decline of freedom and constitutional sovereignty, not to mention the efforts to curb the power of judicial review, spoke for itself. ↗

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

#assumed #constitutional #curb #decline #efforts

Law not served by power is an illusion; but power not ruled by law is a menace which our nuclear age cannot afford. ↗

— Arthur Goldberg

#age #cannot #illusion #law #menace

My hatred is a thousand times more powerful than all your good intentions. ↗

— Jim Goad

#good intentions #hatred #intentions #more #powerful

The race of children possesses magically sagacious powers. ↗

— Gail Godwin

#magically #possesses #powers #race

It's about the power of design and the power of the human spirit. It's above paying anybody to do something stupid for money like reality television does - like ambushing people. ↗

— Genevieve Gorder

#above #anybody #design #does #human

David and his followers taught no new doctrines, in their dispersion or when they came to power, that can be brought to countenance thee at all in shaving off thy beard. ↗

— Lord George Gordon

#brought #came #countenance #david #dispersion

People in power need to control others in order to maintain power. One of the ways to do that is to take that which is threatening and demonize it. ↗

— Jasmine Guy

#demonize #maintain #need #order #others

Exhaustion was pressing upon and overpowering her. "Good-by--because I love you." He did not know; he did not understand. He would never understand. Perhaps Doctor Mandelet would have understood if she had seen him--but it was too late; the shore was far behind her, and her strength was gone. She looked into the distance, and the old terror flamed up for an instant, then sank again. ↗

— Kate Chopin

#feminism #fiction #freedom #freedom