It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep may be.
My manager has been my manager since I was 17, and he says that he's supposed to be smart for me when I can't do it for myself.
Sire, you are looking at a plain man, and I am looking at a great man. Each of us may benefit.
Art is interested in life at the moment when the ray of power is passing through it.
Any powerful technology has sauce for the goose and the gander... It's just an extension of humanity.
Lions make leopards tame.
You have what I can afford to give. You are a panhandler, begging for anything, and I am the man walking briskly by, tossing a quarter or so into your paper cup. I can afford to give you this. This does not break me.
Always two there are, a master and an apprentice.
Finally [Indira Ganhi] called a beautiful dark little boy who was playing on the lawn, and embracing him tenderly, murmured, 'This is my grandchild; this is the man I love most in the world.' It was a strange sensation to watch this very powerful woman embracing a child.
I think models have a lot less power than they did in the '80s, when there were, like, only 10 supermodels who could dictate the rules, whereas now there's so many, and that changes the power dynamic and makes it a more insecure business.
I always like a charity with people who don't speak English because I get them to do all kinds of things around my house.
I don't like to think of my readership as 'fans,' a word which has always suggested a kind of power relationship I'm uncomfortable with.
The pike does not ask the frog's permission before dining.
The relationship between the press and the president is always inherently bad; it's never good.
You may pretend to a civil independence, but the rest is a chimera. You are tied to me like a moon to a planet. I am not your enemy, but some force must be applied so that you follow in my step.
There's nothing wrong with being help. But it's very wrong that we presume people of colour are in a subservient position. That's problematic.
I do see your point, but to me, I'm just a mouse compared to the President of the United States.
Maintaining an employer model of healthcare means handing bosses another weapon they can use against their workers. One more way they can drain union strike funds. One more way that the power dynamic is asymmetric.
Now, come over here so I can pat you down." "But you don't have-" Percy stopped. "Uh, sure." He stood next to the armless statue. Terminus conducted a rigorous mental pat down. "You seem to be clean," Terminus decided. "Do you have anything to declare?" "Yes," Percy said. "I declare that this is stupid.
If only one party in the relationship is working to create love, to create the space of emotional connection, the dominator model remains in place and the relationship just becomes a site for continuous power struggle.
He pinched the name tag and ran his fingers under the letters. "Can you read this, mate? It says C-H-A-R-O-N. Say it with me: CARE-ON." "Charon." "Amazing! Now: Mr. Charon." "Mr. Charon." "Well done.
I've had two callers ask, 'Did you ever work for someone who is poorer than you are?' Their idea is it takes a rich person to give you a job because jobs are something that are given to you, an inferior, from on high.
Trotsky rises to give me his hand, then sits at his desk, gently allowing his regard to light on my person.
I view the director as my boss. I'm the pawn on the chess board. I don't say something to the director easily, because they are my boss.
My mom worked as a housekeeper, and I saw her relationship with her employers - how on the one hand she spent more time with these women than with a lot of her friends, and how in certain ways they were friends. But then they weren't.
