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Quotes About Power

As one climbs up the ladders in society, one starts feeling more and more like an owner, less like a member of it.
~ B. Barmanbek, Culpa Innata
The time is my vehicle & the light is my fuel.
~ Soudip Sinha Roy
Magic is an ancient practice that has power over superstitious mind.
~ Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
I come from a place where everyone has great power, by your standards, and they steadfastly refuse to use it for self-aggrandizement ... anywhere ... ever.
~ J.Z. Colby, Selection
Are you afraid?""Yes.""Energy never stops, remember. It just changes forms.""I am still afraid.
~ Amie Kaufman, Illuminae
... You have to pull the feet to break the neck. They let the loved ones do it.
~ Pierce Brown, Red Rising
I am a leg of the death tripod that will destroy our foes.
~ Frank Herbert, Dune
No power in the 'verse can stop me!
~ River Tam from Firefly
You know what all the plutonium can buy me?" "Yeah it'll buy you one hell of a funeral!" Angel says angrily to man who was behind everything!
~ Angel Ramon Medina
It took me a beat down to execute you Angel but the pleasure will be all mines! - Warden Pinnacle From the book Framed: The Second Book Of The Thousand Years War.
~ Angel Ramon Medina
Once, I believed that space couldhave no power over faith, just as I believed the heavens declared the glory of God'shandwork. Now I have seen that handwork, and my faith is sorely troubled.
~ Arthur C. Clarke, The Star
Pittacus Lore, Eight's Origin
~ Trust is dangerous.
River Tam (Summer Glau): No power in the 'verse can stop me.
~ Joss Whedon
Such kings can destroy a world, just as easily as they can build one.
~ Sarah Warden, Immortal Earth
You can use logic to justify just about anything, that's its power and its flaw.
~ Captain Katherine Janeway
We don't want our politicians bending to the whims of whichever corporation has the money to pay them off.
~ Michael Monroe, Afterlife
Well one tiny poisonous spider can kill a very large man if it bites him in the right place.
~ Michael Monroe, Afterlife
Twice the size of a full grown man, with four muscular arms, it was his worst nightmare on steroids. -The Hyperscape Project
~ Donald Swan
It was the storm that would forever change the course of human destiny.
~ Jeff W. Horton, Cybersp@ce
We will be one step down from the Creator, " she said, her olive-hued face tightening into an expression that she considered dramatic. "Imagining a world and then making it.
~ Walter Mosley
Conquest is made from the ashes of one's enemies.
~ Starscream
Harmonics are the cancer of the electrical system.
~ Steven Magee
Remember, I'm the only person her who's paid to be nice to you. But not too nice. Give me any lip and I'll break your face. OK?
~ Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
Sovereignty unconditionally belongs neither to the people of the nation nor to some supernatural power but to the human mind, to the science and to the high ethical values!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan