Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive.
I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.
I'm not after fame and success and fortune and power. It's mostly that I want to have a good job and have good friends; that's the good stuff in life.
The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.
A habitual disuse of physical forces totally destroys the moral; and men lose at once the power of protecting themselves, and of discerning the cause of their oppression.
I think the touchstone is to give consumers a full, fair choice without the power of a monopoly operating system pushing them in a direction that free competition might or might not achieve.
While I have never been a regular churchgoer, I'm anything but immune to the power and the majesty of the religious experience.
I am not afraid of much. I kill all the spiders in my house, and I'm planning to go skydiving. I am into girl power, and I'm very self-sufficient.
People who believe they have the power to exercise some measure of control over their lives are healthier, more effective and more successful than those who lack faith in their ability to effect changes in their lives.
Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.
There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.
It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever.