Quotes About Power

the reason for Diocletian's hasty retreat around 304 AD. Most historians assumed it had something to do with the unceasing political struggles in the Roman senate—his rival Galerius had been restive, and it was plain he meant to seize the reins of power—and Diocletian may have felt the need to hurry back home to exert his control once again, though that theory was contradicted by his almost immediate retirement once he got there.

The storm to end all storms is coming," he had said, "and the only question is going to be who wields the lightning and the thunder." Oppenheimer had always been prone to such melodramatic language. "It has to be us.

There would be no Lenin without Rasputin.

The God of Exodus is the God of history and of political liberation more than he is the God of nature.

Politics is the name we give to the orchestration of power in any society.

Storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world today.

Thought can be controlled and manipulated, but emotion is willful and unpredictable.

Love relationships are political. An old Gypsy expression goes: "He who confesses first loses." The first person to say "I love you" has lost because the other, upon hearing it, immediately smiles a knowing smile, realizing that he's the one loved, so he now controls the relationship.

A fine work of art - music, dance, painting, story - has the power to silence the chatter in the mind and lift us to another place.

Coercion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him.

So much of life is out of our control. I've learned to focus on what I do have control over: myself.

Knowledge is power... all they have to do is wait for the opportunity to use their knowledge and then they'll have the money

They hire smart attorneys and accountants, and persuade politicians to change laws or create legal loopholes.

The first lesson of having money work for you, as opposed to you working for money, is all about power. If you work for money, you give the power to your employer. If money works for you, you keep the power and control it.

That is what freedom is—the power to choose.

La historia prueba que las grandes civilizaciones se acaban cuando la distancia entre 'tener' y 'no tener' es demasiado grande.

The lack of money is the root of all evil.

with money comes great power that requires the right knowledge to keep it and make it multiply.

Si trabajas por dinero, le cedes el poder a tu jefe. Si haces que el dinero trabaje para ti, puedes conservar el poder y controlarlo.

America today is less a democracy and more an oligarchy.

Money is really made up. It is only because of the illusion of confidence and the ignorance of the masses that this house of cards stands. He talked

the person who has the most timely information owns the wealth.

Si no necesitas dinero, ganarás mucho dinero. La gente que necesita dinero nunca será realmente rica. Es esa necesidad lo que te priva de tu poder. Debes trabajar duro y aprender a no necesitar dinero.

There's only two kinds of people in this world; enemies and tools" ? Joseph Stalin