Quotes of: Government-power Keyword

It's a big theme throughout my music to just embrace everything about your own mind and to always feel powerful. It's not just a feminine thing, but for men, too, whether they feel weak, or strong or crazy or reclusive. I want everyone to feel powerf...

Banks

I'm not sure why, but I seem to be drawn to stories about abuses of power. But I'm also drawn, not so much to victims' stories, as stories that tend to show how power works. Because if you don't understand the criminals, you can't figure out how to s...

Alex Gibney

If power is the only important thing, then Frodo loses against Sauron. Hell, if power’s the only important thing then Gandalf loses against Sauron. If magic is the deciding factor of a fight, then four plucky kids from England get their asses turne...

Patrick Rothfuss

Buddha's teaching are very simple, you don't have to break your head to understand the message. The part that I like the most from Buddha's teachings and from His Holiness, The Dalai Lama, is that the most powerful weapon is to not attack, to be able...

Ricky Martin

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Goddess of immemorable cloudy veils, reveal your magickal powers so we may re-attune our psyches to your multi-dimensional realities and thereby draw your power to heal this worldly habitat and return it to the provocative Sisterhood of Your Milky Wa...

Life

When the power falls on me, it buzzes in the warm, dark spaces of my skull. It stings like nettles at the tips of my fingers. The power is a fever I have felt since early childhood, a heat in the blood that leaves me flushed and unsteady, dreaming in...

Love

When I shoot at the range, I don't feel personally powerful but like the custodian of something powerful. I feel like a successful disciplinarian of something radically alien and potent. Analyze this sensation all you want; you still can't make it go...

Walter Kirn

Since I retired, I very much enjoy watching Serena Williams play. While I was playing, she was one of the toughest players I ever faced. Her ground strokes are so solid, her serve is one of the most powerful in women's tennis, and mentally she is jus...

Monica Seles

Government is the right disposition of things.

The Foucault Effect: Studies in Governmentality

Uncertainty is one of government recipes.

Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza

Government activities that are for public consumption are eyewash from the citizens.

Case Files of an Angel

In the Internet age, it is inevitable that corporations and government agencies will have access to detailed information about people's lives.

Rebecca MacKinnon

It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.

Thomas Jefferson

I've always wanted to find the rules that govern everything. It's amazing that such rules exist. It's even more amazing that we can find them.

Geoffrey West

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.

Voltaire

In any government, interests precede truth.

My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

Government is all show when it isn't murder in the dark ... or soldiers in the open.

Pathfinder

The best Governments of the World have bin composed of Monarchy, Aristocracy, and Democracy.

Algernon Sidney

It is in the country's best interest that Tony Blair rather than Michael Howard should form the next government.

Robert Jackson

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.

Ronald Reagan