Quotes about Power

Aren't we living in a world where heedless men only desire decapitated women?

Kitsch is the aesthetic ideal of all politicians and all political parties and movements. Those of us who live in a society where various political tendencies exist side by side and competing influences cancel or limit one another can manage more or less to escape the kitsch inquisition: the individual can preserve his individuality; the artist can create unusual works. But whenever a single political movement corners power, we find ourselves in the realm of totalitarian kitsch.

people do need some commandment to rule over them in our century, when god's ten have been virtually forgotten! the whole moral structure of our time rests on the eleventh commandment; and the journalist came to realize that thanks to a mysterious provision of history he is to become its administrator, gaining a power undreamed of by a hemingway or an orwell.

Internal imperatives are all the more powerful and therefore all the more of an inducement to revolt.

Some ideas have the force of a bomb exploding.

Metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with.

You know,' he went on, 'novels are the fruit of the human illusion that we can understand our fellow man. But what do we know about each other?' 'Nothing,' said Bibi. 'True,' said Joujou. The professor of philosophy acquiesced with a nod of the head. 'The only thing we can do,' said Banaka, 'is to give an account of our own selves. Anything else is an abuse of power. Anything else is a lie.

When the strong were too weak to hurt the weak, the weak had to be strong enough to leave.

Metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love.

We love and live in power; it is the spirit's end. Mind must subdue; to conquer is its life.

Courts love the people always, as wolves do the sheep.

The highest intention comes from love and compassion ... when our intentions come from a place of love and compassion then we have the power of the universe.