Quotes About Power

But when it comes to foreign policy and particularly issues involving the corporations, the banks, or the military, there is no difference between the two parties.

They seem to be simple because they have formal heads and definite forms, councils, voting assemblies, and so forth, for arriving at decisions. But the formal heads, the kings, presidents, and so forth, are really not the directive heads. They are merely the figure heads. They do not decide. They merely make gestures of potent and dignified acquiescence when decisions are put to them.

the coffers of huge corporations and the pockets of a few wealthy families who control the planet's natural resources.

Let us consider historically how human populations have been controlled. Throughout the ages, there have been two predominant methods for controlling humankind—religion and finance.

When you make your peace with authority, you become authority.

Giving "Magic" the basketball is like giving Hitler an army, Jesse James a gang, or Genghis Khan a horse.

There are three main characteristics that describe the mental state of an individual forming a part of a crowd. As you will see, the same characteristics can also be exhibited by an individual making investment and trading decisions. 1. A Sentiment of Invincible Power

Beware of all politicians everywhere. They excelled at recess when they were in school but have excelled at little since.

money is the lance, not the grail

I have one of those real old American-built cars. The kind that just punches through accidents.

In the U.S., whichever party was in power wasn't interested in support for public health. Public health never competed well for resources in either the House or the Senate. Countries were like people: they didn't value health until they lost it. And then once they got it back, they returned to their old complacency.

Even devils should beware when bargaining with Thanos of Titan.

Omnipotence convinces one that all his decisions are infallible. Can you aid a fallen God now that he sees the error of his ways?

When in a superior bargaining position, one should never make the first move.

Prepare thyselves for battle most fierce and awesome.

I believe you will discover the horizons of my imaginings far wider than you would suspect, Lord Chaos. You address omnipotence. Tread carefully.

In this life, there is nothing more powerful than a person who has seen the path to destiny within their soul and is willing to pursue it.

I found out long ago that the place where the law is apt to be abused the most is right around a courthouse.

Prejudice may indeed be a universal human sin that all races can exhibit, but racism is more than an inevitable consequence of human nature or social accident. Rather, racism is a system of oppression for social and economic purposes. As many analysts have suggested, racism is prejudice plus power.

Once the power of love overcomes the love of power,the world will know peace.

The office of president is a bastardized thing, half royalty and half democracy, that nobody knows whether to genuflect or spit.

When I finished with him [Maradona] he was like a racing colt.

God is bigger than people think.

The first lesson is that you can't lose a war if you have command of the air, and you can't win a war if you haven't.