"If the statistics are right, the Jews constitute but one percent of the human race. It suggests a nebulous dim puff of star dust lost in the blaze of the Milky Way. Properly the Jew ought hardly to be heard of, but he is heard of, has always been heard of. He is as prominent on the planet as any other people, and his commercial importance is extravagantly out of proportion to the smallness of his bulk. His contributions to the world's list of great names in literature, science, art, music, finance, medicine, and abstruse learning are also away out of proportion to the weakness of his numbers."
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"Power is everywhere...because it comes from everywhere."
"Power isn’t just about going forward. It’s about not letting anything hold you back."
"Power without a nation's confidence is nothing."
"I'm free of an abusive cult, based on money and power that worships a fictional deity and safely back with the Catholic Church."
"In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power."
"History is a set of lies agreed upon."
"Power is of two kinds: one is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love."
"Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power."
"The difference between [socialism and fascism] is superficial and purely formal, but it is significant psychologically: it brings the authoritarian nature of a planned economy crudely into the open. The main characteristic of socialism (and of communism) is public ownership of the means of production, and, therefore, the abolition of private property. The right to property is the right of use and disposal. Under fascism, men retain the semblance or pretense of private property, but the government holds total power over its use and disposal."
"If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost."
"Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic."
"Men who have changed the world never achieved their success by winning the chief citizens to their side, but always by stirring the masses."
"The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness - has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power."
"Like a lot of Black women, I have always had to invent the power my freedom requires."
"The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power."
"It is impossible that had Buonaparte descended from a race of vegetable feeders that he could have had either the inclination or the power to ascend the throne of the Bourbons."
"Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs."
"Force is the law of animals, men are ruled by conviction."
"Man's greatness lies in his power of thought."