Quotes About Power

And we both know the cardinal rule when it comes to assassinations. It's not important who fires the shot. It's who pays for the bullet. - Graham Seymour

Elections have consequences. – Gabriel Allon

Aquilo ali são balas. Cinquenta milhões delas, para ser exacto. O suficiente para matar uma grande porção do Terceiro Mundo. Mas não há grandes probabilidades disso. O típico combatente da liberdade não é muito disciplinado. Não nos queixamos. É bom para o negócio".

You would have a better chance of slowing the rise of the seas than bringing democracy to Russia.

The truly powerful man, said Shamron never had to ask for a favor.

A nuclear bomb can only be dropped once. But money can be wielded every day with no fallout and no threat of mutually assured destruction.

It was a crude and unsophisticated country, she thought, always lurching from crisis to crisis, seemingly unaware of the fact its power was fading.

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majoritarianism.

That's true," said Gabriel. "The American president writes love letters to the ayatollah. And us . . ." He gave an indifferent shrug of his shoulders but said nothing more.

He felt suddenly like Winston Smith in Room 101 of the Ministry of Love.

the Tsar next to her, grinning and preening at his latest triumph over the West. And just who did he think he was fooling with that starched and pressed face of his? Real fascists, thought Charlotte, did not use Botox.

lo que importa no es quien dispara, sino quien paga la bala.

Führer, a lie is the truth, only backward.

Walther PPK from the pocket of his overcoat and gave it to Gabriel. "Thank you, Mr. Bond." "It's easy to conceal and packs quite a punch.

the Americans did that. The president and his advisers were too quick to part ways with the Arab strongmen. Now the president's confronted with a world gone mad, and he doesn't have a clue as to what to do about it.

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They were racing westward along the A89 Autoroute, the chief of the Israeli secret intelligence service and the future king of Saudi Arabia.

In Russia you cannot succeed or become wealthy unless someone in a position of power or influence places his hand on your shoulder. - Oksana Akimova

We will control the land of the Vatican. We will control Rome and introduce Islam in it. —SHEIKH MUHAMMAD BIN ABD AL-RAHMAN AL-ARIFI, Imam of the mosque at the King Fahd Defense Academy

RT, Russia's English-language network. War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. Two Minutes Hate.

Thugs the world over loved nothing more than to look down on their vassals from a balcony.

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They arrived in Copenhagen aboard private jets and roared through its quaint streets in armored limousines powered by internal combustion engines. Perhaps one day the oil would run out and the planet would grow too hot to sustain human life. But for now at least, the extractors of fossil fuels still reigned supreme.