Quotes About Power

The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the large centers has owned the government of the US since the days of Andrew Jackson," President Roosevelt wrote in a confidential letter to US diplomat Edward Mandell House in 1933. Of course, this statement was not made public.

how he gathered every morsel for later use as ammunition. His skill in this was impressive; he might not even be paying attention, and still, somehow, he absorbed details she shared. The most mundane, irrelevant facts were corrupted in his grip.

My grandma was the scariest person I'd ever met, and I could not imagine any man having the ability to terrify me more than her.

Because of their impact on our memories, writers rule. They wield the instrument by which our world is organized.

Istoriju pišu pobednici. Predanja ispreda puk. Književnici fantaziraju. Izvesna je samo smrt.

Laws, like the spider's webs, catch the flies and let the hawk go free.

Everyone has determination - it's a question of how you use it. Hers is based on power and success and conquering she doesn't care what she has to do or who gets hurt in the process. In that way we're very, very different.

Look, people have an image of Italians. When I go somewhere in the world, I don't care where it is, when they look at me it's not about my intelligence. It's who can I beat up.

Of course I've got lawyers. They are like nuclear weapons, I've got em 'cause everyone else has. But as soon as you use them they screw everything up.

For where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind is powerless in its own defense.

Through me you pass into the city of woeThrough me you pass into eternal painThrough me among the people lost for aye.Justice the founder of my fabric movedTo rear me was the task of power divine,Supremest wisdom, and primeval love.Before me things create were none, save thingsEternal, and eternal I shall endure.All hope abandon, ye who enter here.

Fucking black was fucking exotic. And America loves to fuck exotic. Put black vengeance and white guilt together in the same bed and you had a night to remember!

Un pays n'est jamais corrompu, ce sont ses dirigeants qui peuvent l'être.

Al mercatino si contratta accanitamente, al supermercato, invece, si paga senza battere ciglio il prezzo indicato. Per far quadrare i conti, il cliente si sottomette al più forte ma schiaccia il più debole.

Conosco un paese che ha provocato ben due guerre mondiali in un secolo e ha proposto una «soluzione finale», e nessuno lo ha mai definito maledetto. Conosco un paese insensibile alla disperazione umana, che continua a ridurre alla fame l'intero pianeta forte del suo strapotere finanziario, e nessuno lo definisce maledetto. Anzi, si presenta al mondo come il popolo benedetto dagli dèi, o meglio da Dio. Allora perché mai Haiti dovrebbe essere maledetta?

Origins sure are powerful and sh*t. You can't shake them.

Language does have the power to change reality. Therefore, treat your words as the mighty instruments they are - to heal, to bring into being, to remove, as if by magic, the terrible violations of childhood, to nurture, to cherish, to bless, to forgive - to create from the whole cloth of your soul, true love.

Every artistic expression is either influenced by or adds something to politics.

There is no greater equaliser than the stupidity of men, especially when those men have power.

GIOVANNI: But not all policeman think like you. Some of them like being policeman. SARGENT: Sure, some guys buy into it. They get off giving orders. They need to oppress somebody else to feel good about themselves.

Their [politicians] fiction mechanisms are immune to trauma.

Ellos quieren la revolución… y nosotros les daremos las reformas… tantas reformas… los ahogaremos en las reformas. ¡Oh mejor aun, los ahogaremos en las promesas de las reformas, porque ni siquiera esas les daremos!

Tal como dijo Aretino, «el llanto desconsolado resulta aceptable solo cuando la viuda que lo produce es dueña de un poder que influye, o más aún, es crucial en la vida de los cortesanos. Pero si quien gobierna ha perdido la mayor parte de su poder, el lamento se convierte en una queja insoportable». Lucrecia

Cuando un grupo político decide tomar el poder ¿qué es lo que hace? En primer lugar, elige a sus enemigos, a la gente «diferente», judíos, gitanos, homosexuales, ateos, comunistas, anarquistas... Es una antigua regla: «¡Dadme un enemigo y moveré el mundo! ¡Permanezcamos unidos, permanezcamos juntos y destruyamos a esta escoria! ¡Llenemos las cárceles con estos infames, Dios está con nosotros!».