#pow

Names have power. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#names #power #names

...But the human tongue is a beast that few can master. It strains constantly to break out of its cage, and if it is not tamed, it will tun wild and cause you grief. ↗

— Robert Greene

#power-of-words #psychology #psychology

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself. ↗

— Elie Wiesel

#self-control #aspiration

Power attracts the corruptible. Suspect any who seek it. ↗

— Frank Herbert

#power #corruption

Power must never be trusted without a check. ↗

— John Adams

#scope-of-government #separation-of-powers #separation

La democracia, como yo la veo, es una forma de oligarquía en la que el pueblo, ignorante, cree participar, pero en realidad las elecciones no son más que una coartada para que, aunque rotando, manden siempre los mismos. El secreto de la democracia reside en hacer creer al pueblo que piensa y decide, no en hacerles pensar y decidir realmente. ↗

— Pedro Santamaría

#democracy #español #political #politics #política

All power is the same. Magic. Physical strength. Economic strength. Political strength. It all serves a single purpose-it gives its possessor a broader spectrum of choices. It creates alternative courses of action. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#economics

Not even the most heavily-armed police state can exert brute force to all of its citizens all of the time. Meme management is so much subtler; the rose-tinted refraction of perceived reality, the contagious fear of threatening alternatives. ↗

— Peter Watts

#marketing #memes #perception-of-reality #power #totalitarianism

The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house ↗

— Audre Lorde

#inequality #power #feminism

Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#faith