Quotes About Power

Those who sit furthest from the center of power, see it the clearest.

No human utterance could be seen as innocent. Any set of words could be analysed to reveal not just an individual but a historical consciousness at work.

May God punish you for this first of your sins!" Hossein Beyg shouted, his words falling on the room like a curse. "May you fear for your life every day you are Shah. May your children be murdered without mercy, just as you have condemned me. Men of the court, take heed! You will be next if you don't root out this viper in your midst.

I reflected how easy it is for a man to reduce women of a certain age to imbecility. All he has to do is give an impersonation of desire, or better still, of secret knowledge, for a woman to feel herself a source of power.

But books, she had found, were too powerful, and invariably misleading.

do not take freedom 25 for granted for she is a very fickle lover she will leave you in a heart beat 30 'cos for now she is married to colonisation a cruel and murderous spouse 35 if you were doin' time like a fine wine, brother you would make a beautiful bouquet

Since the governments are in the pockets of businesses, who's going to control this most powerful institution? Business is more powerful than politics, and it's more powerful than religion. So it's going to have to be the vigilante consumer.

And remember this if you ever think you're too small to be effective -- you've never been in bed with a mosquito.

A single action can cause a life to veer off in a direction it was never meant to go. Falling in love can do that, you think. And so can a wild party. You marvel at the way each has the power to forever alter an individual's compass. And it is the knowing that such a thing can so easily happen, as you did not know before, not really, that has fundamentally changed you and your son.

He was a quick study when it came to latching onto the men of power and agreeing with them.

Let me love you, but don't love me back. Do love me and let me hate you for a while. Let me feel like I have some control, because I know I never do.

Let me love you, but don't love me back. Do love me and let me hate you for a while. Let me feel like I have some control, because I know I never do.

He enjoyed moderating all that bile and aggression. He was entertained, and it made him feel powerful. It wasn't just me he had a go at. He picked on anyone vulnerable.

this was how women fought. With civilized words carrying poison.

If we took away women's right to vote, we'd never have to worry about another Democrat president.

As the saying goes: God made man and woman; Colonel Colt made them equal.

The power structures in fashion used to be limited to western Europe and the States. That's changing.

Most people who get into power in the western world start with great intentions, but slowly they all become entrapped and hung by their own petard.

The American president isn't just the American president. He's going to be the leader of the whole Western world, you know? You got a pretty big responsibility.

You have to turn a blind eye to politics in nearly all Westerns.

You don't just have to see superhero movies. Ultimately, those movies are westerns - superheroes are good guys fighting bad guys in a landscape. In westerns, that divide couldn't be any more clear, but the only superpower you have is that you're a quicker shot than the other guy.

Westminster is a jungle - and the hunter can always smell fear on its prey.

Lisa Nandy is absolutely right that we need to devolve economic power away from Westminster and learn from what Labour councils around the country are doing.

There are three main controllers of power here in Britain: the political establishment in Westminster, the BBC (MSM), and the Bank Of England.