Quotes About Power

I can see now that it's the little things, the small efforts, that keep a relationship going. And I know now that too in some small measure I have the power to hurt him and also the power to make it better.

Is there anything more intoxicating than making a boy bend to your will?

I can see now that it's the little things, the small efforts, that keep a relationship going. And I know now too that in some small measure I have the power to hurt him and also the power to make it better. This discover leaves me with an unsettling, queer sort of feeling in my chest for reasons I can't explain.

Conrad had a way of looking at me, at you, at anybody, that made everything unravel and want to fall at his feet.

It's my gift and my curse.

I wonder what it's like to have that much power over a boy. It's a lot of responsability to hold a person's heart in you hands.

Abuse of power comes as no surprise.

An elite is inevitable.

Even in sleep, the wizard had an iron grip.

An Arabic proverb: One insect is enough to fell a country. A Japanese proverb: Even an insect one-tenth of an inch long has five-tenths of a soul.

A father's love can be a terrible thing

Now just as God lets out a great deal of his power in working miracles in smaller things, so he lets out a great deal of goodness and mercy, in comforting and rejoicing the hearts of his people, in little things, as well as in great.

Usually the knights would build their castles above a road, just as inns are now built beside the road, the better to plunder the people going past, though admittedly in different ways.

Only God truly creates, for only God is unconstrained by things external to himself.

The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law.

As to the evil which results from a censorship, it is impossible to measure it, for it is impossible to tell where it ends.

The turn of a sentence has decided the fate of many a friendship, and, for aught that we know, the fate of many a kingdom.

As to the members of a Democracy, they are the best sort of people in the world; but then they are but a puny sort of gentry, as to strength, put them all together; and apt to be a little defective in point of understanding.

Secrecy is an instrument of conspiracy; it ought not, therefore, to be the system of a regular government.

Kings are (nay were before they were Kings, since it was this qualification determined their subjects to make them Kings) as strong as so many Hercules's; but then, as to their wisdom, or their goodness, there is not much to say.

Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government.

Overnight,' according to Moshe Dayan's close ally Shimon Peres, 'the leadership

In Machiavelli, as in Darwin, nature is set against nature. Fortuna, impersonal blind chance, the agency of floods, havoc-wreaking storms and plagues, confronts virtù, the power of mind to outwit the entropic, leveling tendencies of physical forces. The essence of virtù is to be clever and strong, and it is ethically neutral.

Mix an anorexic body with a heart made of pure fire and you are going to go with a savagery that's hard to explain.