Quotes About Power

Without the Jedi, there can be no balance in the Force, and all will be given over to the dark side.

Forgive me. I feel it again. The pull to the light. The Supreme Leader senses it. Show me again the power of the darkness, and I will let nothing stand in our way.

The Empire does what is necessary," the subofficer observed in a phlegmatic manner which would have gratified his superiors.

That weapon—is mine." Finn all but snarled his reply. "Come and get it.

There has been an awakening in the Force. Have you felt it?

must be done; whatever the cost, whatever the danger. Without the Jedi, there can be no balance in the Force, and all will be given over to the dark side." Though

Without the Jedi, there can be no balance in the Force, and all will be given over to the dark side." Though

But the world doesn't run on logic, it runs on the seven deadly sins and the weather. - Alan Furst; Red Gold

I had managed to scare even the monsters, and when you can scare monsters, you can be sure you've become one yourself.

the first step in liquidating a people . . . is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long the nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was.

In fact, Hutchins continues, by splitting the human lifeworld in the way they do, positivism and pragmatism leave us with "a colossal confusion of means and ends. Wealth and power become the ends of life," because the realm of value is the realm of opinion, in which I seek nothing more than easy justifications for my desires.

VI VERI VENIVERSUM VIVUS VICI. By the Power of Truth, I, while living, have Conquered the Universe.

Your pretty empire took so long to build, now, with a snap of history's fingers, down it goes.

There's no flesh or blood within this cloak to kill. There's only an idea. Ideas are bulletproof.

Authority, when first detecting chaos at its heels, will entertain the vilest schemes to save its orderly facade.

You know what I wish? I wish all the scum of the Earth had one throat and I had my hands about it.

Authority allows two roles: the torturer and the tortured. Twists people into joyless mannequins that fear and hate, while culture plunges into the abyss.

The streets are extended gutters and the gutters are full of blood and when the drains finally scab over, all the vermin will drown. The accumulated filth of all their sex and murder will foam up about their waists and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout 'SAVE US!'...and I'll look down and whisper 'No.

I'm disappointed in you, Adrian. I'm very disappointed. Reassembling myself was the first trick I learned. It didn't kill Osterman. Did you really think it would kill me? I have walked across the surface of the sun. I have witnessed events so tiny and so fast, they could hardly be said to have occurred at all. But you, Adrian, you're just a man. The world's smartest man poses no more threat to me than does its smartest termite.

While a truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power.

The Rudderless World is not shaped by vague metaphysical Forces. It is not God who kills the Children. Not Fate that butchers them or Destiny that feeds them to the Dogs. ... It´s us. Only us.

Me? I'm the king of the twentieth century. I'm the bogeyman. The villain...The black sheep of the family.

They say we have we created the man to end all wars; I say we have created a man to end all worlds.

By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe.