Quotes About Power

Very few of the common people realize that the political and legal systems have been corrupted by decades of corporate lobbying.

A smile can get you far, but a smile with a gun can get you further.

You can go a long way with a smile. You can go a lot farther with a smile and a gun.

You accomplish more with a smile, a handshake, and a gun than you do with just a smile and a handshake.

...and he smiled a lot. The smile did not mean that he was happy. It meant he was stronger than most people, and that he intended to take advantage of it.

The power of a smile goes a long way. My mom taught me that.

A communist is like a crocodile: when it opens its mouth you cannot tell whether it is trying to smile or preparing to eat you up.

Her smile, I'm sure, burnt Rome to the ground.

This man, Comrades, has a nice smile, but he has iron teeth.

All it takes to get elected in twenty-first-century America is a mob of frightened sheep and a wolf with a nice smile.

I felt my face stretch in a victorious smile. The potion had worked. I was inside. I had to suppress an urge to break into a soft shoe routine. Sometimes being able to use magic was so cool.

She can kill with her smile, she can wound with her eyes.

Infinity is present in each part. A loving smile contains all art. The motes of starlight spark and dart. A grain of sand holds power and might.

A bright smile has the strongest electrifying power to lift up the sagging morale and light up a depressed face effortlessly and immediately.

Now comes the part where I relieve you, the little people, of the burden of your failed and useless lives. But remember, as my plastic surgeon always said: if you gotta go, go with a smile.

It is easy to smile at an insult and pretend it's funny when the person insulting you is hosing you with money.

Sometimes when you smile, it's not because you're happy. It's because you're strong.

A single smile of man is a thousand defeat of the devil!

Is it not a thing divine to have a smile which, none know how, has the power to lighten the weight of that enormous chain which all the living in common drag behind them?

You are free to smile in the midst of massive tests and challenges, knowing that you have chosen to play this game, and that you have dominion over all the appearances of earth.

Universal deities ... never seem to smile. Not in any culture. What's the point of having omnipotence if you don't enjoy it?

I suppose it's easy to play a hypocritical politician with a smiling face; it's also quite gratifying to play.

Believe in true beauty and the power of a loving smile because it can reveal the ultimate magic of life.

People are way too optimistic about the power they assume they have got to control how they are being perceived. They don't realize that none of the armours they wear is free of holes!