“Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.”— Oscar Wilde, books.google.com
“Lost in the solitude of his immense power, he began to lose direction.”— Gabriel Garcia Marquez, amazon.com
“A woman half dressed seemed to have some power, but a man was simply not as handsome as when he was naked, and not as secure as when he was clothed.”— John Irving, amazon.com
“We call ships ‘she’. We call our machines 'women’. We compare women to black widows and vipers. And you’re going to tell me it’s not 'lady-like’ to scream, to take up space, to fight and demand respect and do whatever I want. You’ve looked at nuclear bombs and been so in awe that you could only name…”— Anonymous, naamahdarling.tumblr.com
“When we sit in Washington and debate foreign policy, it’s like a Risk game, or it’s all about us, or the human beings disappear from the decisions. But Obama lived in a place where he was surrounded by people who had either perpetrated those acts — and by the way, may not have felt great about that…”— Ben Rhodes, nytimes.com
“Fitness isn’t about a crunch or a push up, it’s about taking your power back.”— Jillian Michaels, thoughtcatalog.com
“Truly powerful people don’t explain why they want respect. They simply don’t engage someone who doesn’t give it to them.”— Sherry Argov, goodreads.com
“Blackwater's dedication to efficiency formed the cornerstone of our entire corporate culture. It was perhaps the ultimate benefit of our streamlined hierarchy: The company had one owner— me— so no stockholders to answer to. There was no board of directors to argue with, and no interminable bureaucra…”— Erik Prince, amazon.com
“All of this comes from Bezos himself. Amazon’s values are his business principles, molded through two decades of surviving in the thin atmosphere of low profit margins and fierce skepticism from the outside world. In a way, the entire company is scaffolding built around his brain — an amplification…”— Brad Stone, amazon.com
“Power is actualized only where word and deed have not parted company, where words are not empty and deeds not brutal, where words are not used to veil intentions but to disclose realities, and deeds are not used to violate and destroy but to establish relations and create new realities.”— Hannah Arendt, amazon.com