Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes

I was stronger than Edward. I'd made him say ow.

These people are very unskilled in arms... with 50 men they could all be subjected and made to do all that one wished.

The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept.

Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is born vanquished.

Well I have a microphone and you don't so you will listen to every damn word I have to say!

Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.

We have a full right, by our own best wisdom, and then even by compulsion to dictate terms and conditions to them [Native Americans] .... The Indian must be made to feel he is in the grasp of a superior.

Hath a lion ever feared jackals? Hath any one ever seen the light of the firefly in bright sunshine? What availeth a drop of water in comparison with the ocean?

The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must

It's nice to hit and not be hit back.

The man can only ride you when your back is bent.

The commerce of the world is conducted by the strong, and usually it operates against the weak.

Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.

History teaches us that whenever a weak and ignorant people possess a thing which a strong and enlightened people want, it must be yielded up peaceably.

The oppressor has always indoctrinated the weak with his interpretation of the crimes of the strong.

At this hour Lie at my mercy all mine enemies.

Power seems to confer on its possessor a mantle of superiority, specialness, and sexual potency, which the envious person desperately wants because he feels himself on some level to be inferior, unimportant, and impotent.

The strong are God's natural protectors of the weak.

For it must be noted, that men must either be caressed or else annihilated; they will revenge themselves for small injuries, but cannot do so for great ones; the injury therefore that we do to a man must be such that we need not fear his vengeance.

The wielders of power did not speak for it, nor did they naturally serve it. Their interest was to use and develop power, no less natural and necessary than liberty but more dangerous.

Whenever domination is present, love is lacking.

When the weak want to give an impression of strength they hint menacingly at their capacity for evil. It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.

Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you

To impress the idea of power on others, they must be made in some way to feel it.

The weak may be joked out of anything but their weakness.