Quotes About Power

When those responsible for its security decide that something needs to be done, they're going to do it—without any discussion and in spite of any moral opposition.

Revenge is the easiest of emotions to understand and to manipulate.

She was a nightmare of beauty and menace living right there above them, a being part raptor, part human, part divine. She knew without question that she could sweep down on them and inflict upon all of them a terrible vengeance if she wished. She had the capacity for violence within her, residing beside her heart.

Imagine , they said, living an existence where the words out of your mouth changed the very fabric of the world around you .

She said, A king is the best and worst of men. Of course. Of course.

No, make something different from war. Don't allow your enemies to be enemies. Make them something else, because otherwise they have a power over you that they should not have. If you think in the same ways as the past, you will only get new versions of the past. Think differently. That's what I'm saying.

He stared at me like he wanted to shoot me. It happens to some young men when you give them a uniform.

No. My electronics run on two hundred tiny betavoltaic diamond batteries made from radioactive carbon-14. My physical form will wear out long before they ever run out of power, in about six thousand years.

With so many people, democracy is impossible, and corruption is so easy.

by and large too many good soldiers get shot, and too few politicians.

I don't know, Mr. Mason," he said at last, "whether evil is like a weed that grows in suitable conditions, or whether it is a condition that occurs in some human beings. Be that as it may, I have no doubt at all that the men who run those cartels are evil, in the deepest, simplest, plainest sense of the word. Evil.

Evil is contagious, Mr. Mason, and it feeds on greed and power.

The basis of any attempt to take over the world is always going to be a philosophy, and the philosophy in this case is one that has been around for centuries. It's based on the idea that the majority of the people are simply too stupid to know what's good for them, so they need a government that's going to make those decisions on their behalf. As long as there are politicians being voted into office, this philosophy is not going to die out.

We live in time where more and more countries are governed not by governments, but by men. Like in old times. And if you are not crazy when you take the throne, you will for sure be crazy if, after ten years, you have not left! Because personal political power make you crazy!

Odin One Eye," she said as she dialed. "The god of war and magic.

Dialogue with an AK47 always ends the same way. The AK47 is always right.

True freedom is freedom from the illusion of morality, from the belief that there is good and evil. There is only power, Mr. Mason.

I showed her a plastic card that said I was with the Pentagon's Office of the Director of Intelligence which was true in an abstract sense; like Picasso's people with both eyes on the same side of their face.

Come, Mr. Mason, you know as well as I do that the American Empire is in decline, and dear Mr. Biden is old and decrepit, and has no stomach for a fight. He

Fate whispers to the wolf; "you cannot withstand the storm" and the wolf whispers back, "I am the storm.

wealth is not found in banks, but in the heart. Oh, sure, having financial wealth can make life better in some ways, but the burdens that come with it—the weight of responsibility, the necessity of constant effort to maintain that wealth—they drain the joy from life. As for power, the man who has it is as much its slave as its master. The use of that power imposes obligations upon the one who uses it, and

that membership of a special club—whether it's a religion, a priesthood, an aristocracy or political movement—can drive people crazy to the point of believing themselves superior…" I turned to Pamela and added, "and with the right of life and death over entire races.

Give the world a common enemy, and they will happily surrender their liberties," Gary said softly. "That was one of the things Kissinger said.

As for power, the man who has it is as much its slave as its master. The use of that power imposes obligations upon the one who uses it,