#power

The party in power, like Jonah's gourd, grew up quickly, and will quickly fall. ↗

— Davy Crockett

#grew #jonah #like #party #power

I was raised in Boston by three older brothers and a very strong and empowering single mom. ↗

— Eliza Dushku

#brothers #empowering #i #i was raised #mom

A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

#power #reform #revolution #transfer

The fact is that my wife if she had common sense would have more power over me than any other whatsoever, for my heart always alights upon the nearest perch. ↗

— George Byron

#any #common #common sense #fact #had

Power intoxicates men. It is never voluntarily surrendered. It must be taken from them. ↗

— James F. Byrnes

#men #must #never #power #surrendered

As a consequence, progress has come to mean simply more power, more profit, more productivity, more paper prosperity, all of which are convertible into standards concerned only with size or magnitude rather than quality or excellence. ↗

— Alex Campbell

#concerned #consequence #convertible #excellence #into

From this process has emerged a parallel process of translating traditional working and living values into a new political and economic power - a power increasingly based upon the strength of money and those material things money can purchase. ↗

— Alex Campbell

#economic #economic power #emerged #increasingly #into

I think in the corridors of power these dangerous kinds of orders are issued in a much more vague way, passed down two or three levels of command before they're given to the assassin. ↗

— Eddie Campbell

#before #command #corridors #dangerous #down

What is the system? It revolves around the banks, the system is built on the power of the banks, so it can be destroyed through the banks. ↗

— Eric Cantona

#banks #built #destroyed #power #revolves

The simplest and most basic meaning of the symbol of the Goddess is the acknowledgment of the legitimacy of female power as a beneficent and independent power. ↗

— Carol P. Christ

#basic #beneficent #female #goddess #independent