Quotes About Power

Son muchos los que sostienen que no hay cosa más erótica que el poder. A mí me parece que no saben una mierda de erotismo...

Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion

He often expressed his amazement...at the power of theatre to transfigure a play, and inject it with significances he could never have imagined without it: yet for all that, he did not change custom or become a theatregoer, and this...was a part of the price he had to pay for a habit of Protestantism.

Goldman Sachs doesn't care if you raise chickens.

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence in society. MARK TWAIN

If white men could have a playground, this would be it.

Their gods were back. Tiger Lily had Called them. And the Englanders were doomed.

You're less of a charmer, and more of a 'fury from the depths of hell' type of person.

The right song can change everything.

Come on Geena. Dude's slippery as hell. He could talk his way out of a blow job in the Oval Office.

The more you learn, the more you realize how little you know. Still, the struggle itself is worthwhile. Knowledge is the root of power, after all.

Knives,' muttered Calder, 'and threats, and bribes, and war?' Bayaz' eyes shone with the lamplight. 'Yes?' 'What kind of a fucking wizard are you?' 'The kind you obey.

Get what you can with words, because words are free, but the words of an armed man ring that much sweeter.

Power makes all things right. That is my first law, and my last. That is the only law that I acknowledge.

Kill me?' The Bloody-Nine laughed louder than ever. 'I do the killing, fool!

The world is full of monsters, after all. Perhaps the best one can hope for is to have the most terrible on your side.

When one man knowingly kills another, they call it murder! When society causes the deaths of thousands, they shrug and call it a fact of life.

You are Shenkt? I expected more." "Pray to whatever god you believe in that you never see more." "I do not pray." Shenkt leaned close, and whispered in his ear. "I advise you to start.

The lowly squabble over trifles. The great wage secret wars for power and wealth, and they call it government. Wars of words, and tricks, and guile, but no less bloody for that.

Mercy and weakness are the same thing in war, and there's no prize for nice behavior.

The trouble with being able to lift heavy things is that when heavy things need lifting folk step out of the way and smile at you.

The goal of government, you see," and the Arch Lector prodded at the air with his bony forefinger, "is to load the unhappiness onto those least able to make you suffer for it.

Very well, Practical Vitari, if you really can't resist me. You'll have to go on top, though, if you don't mind.

The skies make no special dispensation for Magi, boy, they piss on everyone the same.