Music is the weapon in the war against unhappiness.
It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic power.
We're taught Lord Acton's axiom: all power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. I believed that when I started these books, but I don't believe it's always true any more. Power doesn't always corrupt. Power can cleanse. What I believe is alw...
And the things that we fear are a weapon to be held against us.
Words are like weapons; they wound sometimes.
The weapon of the Republic is terror, and virtue is its strength.
It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Where right has no power -- there power likes to be.
A powerful friend becomes a powerful enemy.
The greatest power is not money power, but political power.
There is no limit of degradation to which power cannot bring anyone even with the loftiest principles. We would hope that being unprepared for power, they would be ineffective. Their task is not "seize power" (those who use this term show that they s...
The power to lead is the power to mislead, and the power to mislead is the power to destroy.
Humor can be an incredible, lacerating and effective weapon.
The stiletto is a feminine weapon that men just don't have.
The guitar was my weapon, my shield to hide behind.
Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.
The word of a powerful man is the truth.
Knowledge is power. Power to do evil...or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil.
When it is recalled that until the Christian era the underworld was never regardded as a hostile area, that all gods were useful and essentially friendly to man despite occasional lapsesl when we see the steady methodical inculcation into humanity of...
Many women say that verbal violence causes more harm than physical violence because it damages self-esteem so deeply. Women have not wanted to hear battered women say that the verbal abuse was as hurtful as the physical abuse: to acknowledge that tru...
The widespread willingness to rely on thermonuclear bombs as the ultimate weapon displays a cavalier attitude toward death that has always puzzled me. My impression is that...most of the defenders of these weapons are not suitably horrified at the po...
