Unequal Power Quotes

A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.

In our political system, money is power. And that means a few can have a lot more power than the rest. That's bad news for everyone else - and for our democracy itself.

We cannot negotiate with those who say, "What's mine is mine, and what's yours is negotiable.

The Britisher is the top dog and the Indian the underdog in his own country.

Love between a man and a woman is inevitably complicated, corrupted, and obstructed by an unequal balance of power.

Making fun of born-again christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope.

The supernatural virtue of justice consists of behaving exactly as though there were equality when one is the stronger in an unequal relationship.

God is usually on the side of big squadrons and against little ones.

No minority should climb all over the majority.

There is nothing harder, at moments, than talking to someone who has all the power of silence.

Unequal combinations are always disadvantageous to the weaker side.

God is ordinarily for the big battalions against the little ones.

Bullying is the result of an unequal power dynamic - the strong attacking the weak.

You cannot help little men by tearing down big men.

The great and the good will decide what is good for us and make sure that we get what is good for us, good and hard.

Among the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

As long as there is a great disparity of power which makes negotiations seem to be unnecessary to one side, that causes them to believe that they can accomplish their purposes without it.

People complain of the unequal distribution of wealth [but it is a far greater] injustice that any one man should have the power to write so many brilliant essays... There is no one who writes like [Thomas Huxley].

As I look back now I can see that I was a perfect little aristocrat.

I pushed him away, catching Lee's awe that I was not only standing with a demon outside a circle, but that Al was treating me like an equal. Or maybe a favorite pet, I amended as Al caught me when I started to tilt.

When one culture has the big guns and the other has none, there is a certain predictablity about the outcome.

...I've learned exactly who the enemy are. I easily recognize them-business-suited in their modern American executive guise, each boss two feet taller than I am and impossible to meet eye to eye.

In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

I write about messy relationships, and they put pastel covers on them, but I can't complain.

In the land of the blind the one-eyed man is king.