#power

If I desired to kill the senator why did I not do it? You all admit that I had him in my power. ↗

— Preston Brooks

#desired #did #had #him #i

Two thousand years ago, we lived in a world of Gods and Goddesses. Today, we live in a world solely of Gods. Women in most cultures have been stripped of their spiritual power. ↗

— Dan Brown

#been #cultures #goddesses #gods #live

Serial killers kill for the power and control they experience during the murders and for the added ego boost they get in the aftermath from community fears, media coverage, and the police investigations. ↗

— Pat Brown

#aftermath #boost #community #control #coverage

American power worldwide is at its historic zenith. ↗

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

#historic #power #worldwide #zenith

War on terrorism defines the central preoccupation of the United States in the world today, and it does reflect in my view a rather narrow and extremist vision of foreign policy of the world's first superpower, of a great democracy, with genuinely idealistic traditions. ↗

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

#defines #democracy #does #extremist #first

I believe in the power of weakness. ↗

— Pat Buckley

#believe #i #i believe #i believe in #weakness

The Connection Machine was the most powerful supercomputer in the world. It is a complex supercomputer and it will take forever to completely describe how it works. ↗

— Philip Emeagwali

#complex #connection #describe #forever #how

You may feel powerless as a child, but the world will one day be yours. And you're responsible for it. So, seize the day and take charge of it. ↗

— Harvey Fierstein

#child #day #feel #may #one day

Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you; it means learning to respect and use your own brains and instincts; hence, grappling with hard work." (Claiming an Education, 1977) ↗

— Adrienne Rich

#empowerment #feminism #independent-thought #responsibility #self-determination

I don't believe, in the 21st century, in the balance of power system. This is a European idea of the 19th and 20th centuries. ↗

— Joschka Fischer

#balance #balance of power #believe #centuries #century