Power is not an institution and not a structure neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.
The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others nor our own powerlessness stupefy us.
The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community against his will is to prevent harm to others. His own good either physical or moral is not sufficient warrant.
Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power or the consideration to be dead.
Either you think or else others have to think for you and take power from you pervert and discipline your natural tastes civilize and sterilize you.
A true king is neither husband nor father he considers his throne and nothing else.
If you look just at the decades after 1934 you know it's hard to point to really inspired and positive support from outside of Haiti to Haiti and much easier to point to either small-minded or downright mean-spirited policies.
Either positive or negative comments are good because it shows I am still relevant.
Positive healthy loving relationships in your twenties... I don't know if anyone would disagree with it: I think they're the exception not the norm. People are either playing house really aggressively because they're scared of what an uncertain time it is or they're avoiding commitment altogether.
This idea that a book can either be about character and feeling or about politics and idea is just a false binary. Ideas are an expression of the feelings and the intense emotions we hold about the world.
I did not resign from politics because of Bofors. I resigned because I do not know how to play petty politics. I did not know back then and I don't know now either.
Every artistic expression is either influenced by or adds something to politics.
Lenin said that people vote with their feet. Well that's what's happening. They either go or they don't go. It's all politics. It's all demographics.
My political science degree is always on the back-burner. I took my LSAT so even if I want to take the LSAT again I know what I'm getting into. I'll keep it on the back-burner. Who knows maybe with my popularity I can have a career in politics with a law degree. I think it'll work out either way.
My position is not that John Kerry is either Jesus Christ or the prophet Mohammad. My position is that John Kerry is the possibility of restarting politics.
Politics is a lot of serendipity. You're in the right place and the right time and you've got the right message and it either connects for you or or it doesn't.
It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy.