Quotes About Power

I guess it's what you'd call a metaphor: atomic energy has made America into a superpower, so maybe it could do the same for individual citizens – that's basically the point we're hoping you can get across for us.

Who did it? Tell me who did it, you slime! Who murdered Hollis? You tell them! You tell them they're dead! You know how much firepower I have floating out there? I oughtta take out this entire rat-hole neighborhood! I oughtta. . . oughtta break your neck, you. . . you. . . Oh god damn. God damn. God damn. God damn!

Mapas têm POTÊNCIA; se adequadamente decifrados, geram uma riqueza inestimável de saber. Codificados nas pedras desta cidade estão símbolos cujo trovejar basta para despertar os deuses adormecidos e submersos no leito oceânico dos sonhos. Para o melhor ou o pior.

It is my own belief that the only power which can resistthe power of fear is the power of love. It's a weak thing anda tender thing; men despise and deride it. But I look for theday when in South Africa we shall realize that the only last-ing and worth-while solution of our grave and profoundproblems lies not in the use of power, but in that under-standing and compassion without which human life is anintolerable bondage, condemning us all to an existence ofviolence, misery and fear.

Let me not be afraid to defend the weak because of the anger of the strong, nor afraid to defend the poor because of the anger of the rich.

I cannot stop you from thinking your thoughts. It is good that a young man has such deep thoughts. But hate no man, and desire power over no man.

He had come to tell his brother that power corrupts, that a man who fights for justice must himself be cleansed and purified, that love is greater than force. And none of these things had he done. God have mercy on me, Christ have mercy on me. He turned to the door, but it was locked and bolted. Brother had shut out brother, from the same womb had they come.

if the starets can be killed, why can't a member of the aristocracy?' Vladimir asked. 'Why can't a member of the imperial family? Why can't the tsar himself? You must be careful when extracting a brick from the foundations, that it does not bring

When she was strong, she was unbeatable. When she was strong, she got things done.

He's got a goddamn sword. Look at it. It's huge.

But I believe. I believe that once we were ruled by beings so evil that even their own shadows shied away from them.

Alice took back her hand and the god's appendage withdrew from above them, taking Cadaverous with it. Alice came over. She held out her hand, showed Valkyrie the tiny Cadaverous Gant, lying helplessly in one of the creases of her palm. Then Alice looked at Valkyrie, smiled, and clapped.

The only thing we know for certain is that Darquesse is coming, and she's coming to kill us all.

We are the decisive factor in the affairs of the universe.

Wherever you encounter domination, you can be sure that it is satanic. That is not how God rules people.

The people who really rule the world are those who know how to pray.

You Englishmen,' said Herr Wurter. 'You are all the same. Wherever you are you behave as if you were at home and your word was law.

These palms are greater than Versailles,for no man made them.

A good communicator affects our physiology. The power of voice can entrance us even induce or remove pain.

People are always saying, Can you use your skills to get extraordinarily beautiful women into bed? Well... yes, yes I can.

This renewed politics of otherness not only allowed entire categories of poor whites to develop a powerful sense of racial belonging, but also allowed entire categories of erstwhile nonwhite immigrants (the Irish are the most prominent example) to become white.

We live in a system that espouses merit, equality, and a level playing field, but exalts those with wealth, power, and celebrity, however gained.

Power in the hands of the reformer is no less potentially corrupting than in the hands of the oppressor.

The goal was organized resistance to racial subjugation, and its harassing effect was probably more potent precisely because they risked so much without either economic or political power and with no certainty that they could change a system that they had known and hated all of their lives.