Quotes About Power

men worship and fear power and so give their loyalty to those who dispense it.

The science of man has shown us that society will always be composed of passive subjects, powerful leaders, and enemies upon whom we project our guilt and self-hatred.

Naively, one may suppose those at the Top who take decisions are poly­mathic supermen, somehow qualified to assess the many-sided implications of their decisions. Acquaintance with any of them dispels such illusions.

I'd like to destroy you a few times in bed.

They were beaten to start with. They were beaten when they took them from their farms and put them in the army. That is why the peasant has wisdom, because he is defeated from the start. Put him in power and see how wise he is.

They are strong," David said. "But there's a strong wind today and we drink according to the wind.

He is a great fish and I must convince him, he thought. I must never let him learn his strength nor what he could do if he made his run.

Creation's probably overrated. After all, God made the world in only six days and rested on the seventh.

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

it wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short.

I'll kill him though,' he said. 'In all his greatness and his glory.

Here's the reason why the peasant is wise. He's wise because he's beaten from the very start. Give him power and then you'll see how wise he is.

We are very serious so we can make very strong jokes.

Ülkeyi yöneten bir s?n?f var, ak?ls?z bir s?n?f. Hiçbirinin bir boktan anlad??? yok. Bu savaÅŸ bu yüzden ç?kt? iÅŸte.

The dentuso is cruel and able and strong and intelligent. But I was more intelligent than he was. Perhaps not, he thought. Perhaps I was only better armed.

Man is not much beside the great birds and beasts. Still I would rather be that beast down there in the darkness of the sea.

Ambition...the original of vices; Mother of hypocrisy, parent of envy, engineer of deceit

Man is not much beside the great birds and beasts.

He is a great fish and I must convince him, he thought. I must never let him learn his strength nor what he could do if he made his run. If I were him I would put in everything now and go until something broke. But, thank God, they are not as intelligent as we who kill them; although they are more noble and more able.

A young dame with pretty eyes and a smile can make an old man do just about anything.

Yes. But we really ought to know it. How it's run. How it works. Who are the crooks and the tyrants and how to get rid of them.

But are there not many fascists in your country? There are many who do not know they are fascists but will find it out when the times comes." But you cannot destroy them until they rebel? No, Robert Jordan said. We cannot destroy them. But we can educate the people so that they will fear fascism and recognize it as it appears and combat it.

Margot was too beautiful for Macomber to divorce her and Macomber had too much money for Margot ever to leave him.

They had a sound basis of union. Margot was too beautiful for Macomber to divorce her and Macomber had too much money for Margot ever to leave him.