Quotes Wishes and Status Messages - Page 37

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in thesame sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Washing one''s hands of the conflict between the powerfuland the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

You only have power over people so long as you don''t takeeverything away from them. But when you''ve robbed a man of everything he''s nolonger in your power he''s free again.

Honesty and Wisdom are such a delightful pastime, at another person''s expense !

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

In loving, you lean on some one to hold him up.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

In spiration is apt to come only while one is working, waited for, it usually keeps waiting.

Imagination is useful as long as it remains practical.

If we shake hands with icy fingures, it is because we have burnt them so horribly before.

In history, characters and events occur twice, first as tragedy then as farce.

Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell peopleyou are, you aren''t.

In all superstitions wise men follow fools.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they getinto a position of power, corrupt power.

Ignoring is not the same thing as being tolerant

In stinct is the nose of the mind.

In Prayer it is better to have a Heart without Words than words without a Heart.

There are questions of real power and then there arequestions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authorityto begin to fight the real questions of power.

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

In spiration comes of working every day.

Never play cat and mouse games if you are a mouse.

Ignorance is a bold, and knowledge reserved

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

You can have power over people as long as you don''t takeeverything away from them. But when you''ve robbed a man of everything, he''sno longer in your power.

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used toprotect the innocent.

Imagination grows by excercise and in more powerful in the mature rather than in the young.

The property of power is to protect.

In art, as in love, instinct is enogh.

Ignorance is a form of environmental pollution.