Militant feminists are pro-choice because it's their ultimate avenue of power over men. And believe me to them it is a question of power. It is their attempt to impose their will on the rest of society particularly on men.

We are born to action and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

I think a responsibility comes with notoriety but I never think of it as power. It's more like something you hold like grains of sand. If you keep your hand closed you can have it and possess it but if you open your fingers in any way you can lose it just as quickly.

The worst pain a man can suffer: to have insight into much and power over nothing.

I believe the root of all evil is abuse of power.

It is through this mysterious power that we too have our being and we therefore yield to our neighbors even to our animal neighbors the same right as ourselves to inhabit this vast land.

Power and violence are opposites where the one rules absolutely the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.

The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.

I believe in the transformational power of liberty. I believe that the free Iraq is in this nation's interests. I believe a free Afghanistan is in this nation's interest.

I have never seen opponents so silent about their record and so desperate to keep their power.

It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opinion. Our ears it seems are wonderfully attuned to sneers and evil reports about our fellow men.

The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others nor our own powerlessness stupefy us.

In the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits.

I love being a wife and homemaker - because it's my choice. My husband doesn't expect me to do it. I don't mind doing things for him because he does so much for me we both feel that way so there is no power struggle.

In the intellectual order the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.

Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity even a duty.

To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.

With power comes the abuse of power. And where there are bosses there are crazy bosses. It's nothing new.

The California crunch really is the result of not enough power-generating plants and then not enough power to power the power of generating plants.

The only power deserving the name is that of masses and of governments while they make themselves the organ of the tendencies and instincts of masses.

The strategic adversary is fascism... the fascism in us all in our heads and in our everyday behavior the fascism that causes us to love power to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us.

If women be educated for dependence that is to act according to the will of another fallible being and submit right or wrong to power where are we to stop?

I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power whether vested in many or a few is ever grasping and like the grave cries 'Give give.'

The symptoms of fascist thinking are colored by environment and adapted to immediate circumstances. But always and everywhere they can be identified by their appeal to prejudice and by the desire to play upon the fears and vanities of different groups in order to gain power.