Quotes About Power

Fear can be headier than whiskey, once man has acquired a taste for it.

Or, maybe it would be better to slam seven or eight elevated superhighways across the island, knocking down everything in the way, like Robert Moses wanted.

Don't move," he said, in a voice that was forty percent gravel and sixty percent inert materials.

Han shook his head. Long ago he had told himself that females - mammalian, reptilian, or some biological class yet to be discovered - were beyond his meager powers of comprehension. Better leave them to mystery, he'd often advised himself.

The Jungle Creed says the Strong must Feed on any Prey at Hand, I was Branded a Beast and Sat at a Feast before I was a Man.

Always call them 'Sir.' They aren't any harder to kill later!

Those who hold power and influence in government either have limited interest in implementation or, in particular in the case of the prime minister and his most senior advisors, cannot find time in their busy agenda to think about implementation. They all too often assume that the machinery of government will do as it is told.

today influence belongs to a carefully selected handful of partisan advisors and senior deputy ministers.

The hoplites drove the tyrants from power and created broad oligarchies in their place.

The advantage always favors the one who is trying to create fear, over the one who is trying to erase it."87

A single tiny light creates a space where darkness cannot exist. The light vanquishes the darkness. Try as it might, the darkness cannot conquer the light.

Your words, your thoughts, your imagination: powerful tools. Remember that and use them wisely.

It is important to remember that we all have magic inside us.

Signs and symbols rule the world, not words nor laws.

Hyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is to life.

Give the peasants neither life nor death.

Life never forgives weaknesses.

In the beginning was the word, and it was spoken.

You know, I've been around the ruling class all my life, and I've been quite aware of their total contempt for the people of the country.

When one being gets into the mood of life he can bring millions to life. When one fellow gets into the suicidal mood, he can kill thousands along with him.

Your words are building blocks of which you construct your life and future.

Within every man and woman is a force that directs and controls the entire course of life. Properly used, it can heal every affliction and ailment we may have.

Enclave life becomes very tense, Even when they do elect a leader, the factions remain, with the threat of splitting off.

A laugh can be a very powerful thing. Why, sometimes in life, it's the only weapon we have.