Quotes about Power
The only cure for so much misfortune is love. It's not the force of gravity that keeps the universe in balance, but the binding power of love.
— Isabel Allende
No one gives you anything in life, Teresa would say, you have to take it by force, and as soon as you get careless they'll take it back.
— Isabel Allende
To serve an ambassador who was despotic toward his subordinates and servile toward those of a higher social rank.
— Isabel Allende
The Indians' insistence on clinging to their customs had to be the work of Satan there was no other explanation which is why the friars went out to hunt down and lasso the deserters and then whipped their doctrine of love and forgiveness into them.
— Isabel Allende
It was an election year and there was reason for concern over the turn of events. The country was waking up. The wave of discontent that was stirring the people was beginning to strike at the heart of that oligarchic society.
— Isabel Allende
Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them," wrote Margaret Atwood.
— Isabel Allende
They made you believe you had power; they hammered at your brain over the barracks loudspeakers; they commanded you in the name of your country; and they gave you your share of guilt so you could not wash your hands of it but would be forever bound by ties of blood.
— Isabel Allende
In esse I am nothing; in posse I am everything.
— John Adams
Be God or let God.
— Anonymous
His Christianity was muscular.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Man is not the creature of circumstances, Circumstances are the creatures of men.
— Benjamin Disraeli
A brave arm makes a short sword long.
— Anonymous