Quotes About Power

democracy that cannot control its own population may be worse for human rights than a dictatorship that can.

Take the most dangerous power in the South China Sea, China. While the century of humiliation at the hands of the Western powers "is a period etched in acid on the pages of Chinese student textbooks today

Maps, in other words, can be dangerous tools. And yet they are crucial to any understanding of world politics.

Slavery was, in fact, a social system designed to destroy social capital among slaves and between slaves and freemen.

Part of the power of Emerson's individualism is his insistence, at crucial moments, that individualism does not mean isolation or self-sufficiency. This is not a paradox, for it is only the strong individual who can frankly concede the sometimes surprising extent of his own dependence.

the storm hit the back of the house. The roof was torn off instantly, and the walls smashed in. The whole building was ripped out of the ground and folded over onto itself. Josh saw the open doorway close around his mother like a mouth, swallowing her out of sight, and then the whole building was blown apart into pieces and snatched away on the wind.

They sat at the head of a wide round table

By the time he had reached adolescence, he had become adept at manipulating people and getting them to do what he wanted. A few well-placed words in the right ears could be twice as damaging as an equal number of bullets, and much harder to trace back to their source.

Where other men saw living, breathing human beings, Shane saw only cogs in society's engine, to manipulate and use as it suited him best.

Gods have a way of sprouting from vacant lots.

I think Hollywood has a class system. The actors are like the inmates, but the truth is they're running the asylum.

a war planned and pushed by avaricious merchants who wished to rule the world. And

I think that the power is the principle. The principle of moving forward, as though you have the confidence to move forward, eventually gives you confidence when you look back and see what you've done.

That is some gift you have, Mr. Sloane… what you did to those jurors. I don't know how you did it, how you convinced them. They didn't want to believe you. I saw it when they came back. They had their minds made up." A tear rolled down her cheek; she disregarded it. "Well, consider this, Mr. Sloane. My Emily is dead, and my grandson will never have his mother. That is something you can't change with your words.

People say the justice system is color-blind, but it isn't. It sees color, and it sees green. It will always see green. We like to think our courts are the great equalizer between the powerful and the powerless, but more times than not, money and power still prevail. To the Jack Devines of this world, Bennet wasn't the victim because in Jack Devine's way of thinking, everything was OK because he paid for it.

You control what you can control. You give the rest to God." By

clip of her Glock, slapped it back into place, and chambered

told you, Charlie, the FSB is a more refined version of the KGB.

Injustice was not built of stone and mortar, or of metal. It was built of greed, inhumanity, and man's thirst for power.

Usted tiene el regalo. Usted es un curandero.

People say the justice system is color-blind, but it isn't. It sees color, and it sees green. It will always see green. We like to think our courts are the great equalizer between the powerful and the powerless, but more times than not, money and power still prevail.

He sat back envisioning himself poking a stick at a tiger through the bars of a cage. Then the tiger grew angry, lunged, and snapped the stick off in his hand.

She figured Nolasco wanted her there to call her out in front of Williams and Laub and otherwise run around the room pissing on chairs.

straightening to his full height. Intimidation