#power

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't. ↗

— Margaret Thatcher

#being #being a lady #lady #like #people

Bush's war in Iraq has done untold damage to the United States. It has impaired our military power and undermined the morale of our armed forces. Our troops were trained to project overwhelming power. They were not trained for occupation duties. ↗

— George Soros

#armed forces #bush #damage #done #duties

We are the most powerful nation on earth. No external power, no terrorist organization, can defeat us. But we can defeat ourselves by getting caught in a quagmire. ↗

— George Soros

#defeat #earth #external #getting #most

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

Of all the wastes of human ignorance perhaps the most extravagant and costly to human growth has been the waste of the distinctive powers of womanhood after the child-bearing age. ↗

— Anna Garlin Spencer

#age #been #child-bearing #costly #distinctive

When men have money and power they get turned on, sexually. They get horny as hell. Can't imagine why, though. ↗

— Penelope Spheeris

#hell #horny #imagine #men #money

To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

#aid #beyond #care #every #every man