Quotes About Power

God is invisible, but we can see his works.

The car has no muscle and the cell phone has no brain.

The weak cry, the strong get emotional."

Within the walls of Love Hall, Lord Loveall could command this kind of respect.

I'm convinced that one of the most powerful forces on earth is the prayer of a child.

I feel like, in a lot of shows where the woman is in charge, the woman is this ball buster and the guy is sort of weak and spineless. And that's never been my experience in a relationship. I think it's much more interesting that the guy is the boss. And there are stakes.

I'd better get back to work. I have empires to topple, people to fire, lives to ruin...

Money buys things that people with money never even realize they've bought, like time and freedom. -- Whitney Otto

It's being willing to walk away that gives you strength and power - if you're willing to accept the consequences of doing what you want to do.

If the world were a bar, America would currently be the angry drunk waving around a loaded gun. Yeah, the other people in the bar may be afraid of him, but they sure as hell don't respect him.

Little Engines Can Do BIG Things

that Ruth's power as a player was gone. He was thirty-nine years old and his hard living had caught up with him.

Who hath a book Hath friends at hand, And gold and gear At his command; And rich estates, If he but look, Are held by him Who hath a book. "Who hath a book Hath but to read And he may be A king, indeed. His kingdom is His inglenook- All this is his Who hath a book.

There's nothing so aphrodisiacal for a woman as money and success.

Something always dies when the lion feeds – and yet there is meat for those that follow him.

Should five slaves dictate to a king? If five baboons bark, must the black-maned lion tremble?

We are all mere insects caught in the web that the gods spin for us.

War is the game played by old men with the lives of the young

This book is not about heroes. English poetry is not yet fit to speak of them. Nor is it about deeds, or lands, nor anything about glory, honour, might, majesty, dominion, or power, except War. Above all I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.

If this war is not fought with the greatest brutality against the bands both in the East and in the Balkans then in the foreseeable future the strength at our disposal will not be sufficient to be able to master this plague.

Die Massen in Bewegung zu setzen braucht's nur der Phrase eines Dummkopfs. Wie lange Zeit braucht der kluge Mann, um nur einen einzigen zu seiner Meinung zu bekehren!

Mistaking insolence for freedom has always been the hallmark of the slave.

Open avowal of dictatorship is much less dangerous than sham democracy. The first one can fight; sham democracy is insidious.

It was one of the greatest errors in evaluating dictatorship to say that the dictator forces himself on society against its own will. In reality, every dictator in history was nothing but the accentuation of already existing state ideas which he had only to exaggerate in order to gain power