#power

You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power - he's free again. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#again #away #everything #free #long

Girls are more academically powerful. They make the grades, they run the student activities, they are the valedictorians. ↗

— Christina Hoff Sommers

#activities #grades #make #more #powerful

Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#gullible #hands #hearts #help #may

Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

#domination #form #lie #power #selective

Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact, can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

#antithesis #between #contest #define #ever

The function of the law is not to provide justice or to preserve freedom. The function of the law is to keep those who hold power, in power. ↗

— Gerry Spence

#function #hold #justice #keep #law

Negotiations are a euphemism for capitulation if the shadow of power is not cast across the bargaining table. ↗

— George Schultz

#bargaining #capitulation #cast #euphemism #negotiations

My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it. People need somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave. ↗

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

#authority #behave #how #i #need

I am concerned about how to reverse the process by which a fundamentalist right and a corporate elite were able to seize power in the United States. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#about #am #concerned #corporate #elite

I believe that the will of the people is resolved by a strong leadership. Even in a democratic society, events depend on a strong leadership with a strong power of persuasion, and not on the opinion of the masses. ↗

— Yitzhak Shamir

#democratic #democratic society #depend #even #events