Quotes About Power

Tyranny and fantasy both like to write everyone else's lines.

You look up from an oldish author: Is he dead? Such power we have, not knowing. Let him live.

And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove;and nothing shall be impossible unto you.

BLOODY HELL, HE JUST PUNCHED THE MOON!

The dead hand has too long hampered the freedom of the living.

I want to be an Avenger.

The rise and fall of Tony Montana, and what a way to go out.

Silence fueled anxieties, gave them their true power. Expressing them aloud was a way of releasing that tension, of letting go, if only for a brief time.

The Betrayer of Christ stared back at Erin. "By my word, I sent Christ from this world. By my actions, I will bring him back. That is the purpose of my curse.

superbolide meteors, averaging seventeen to twenty meters across. They each struck with the energy equivalent of eight atomic bombs.

She ignored his questions. "You are not ready for what you seek," she simply said. Her words were Latin, but her accent sounded ancient, older even than his.

Pumpkin-sized hail pelted all around. The roof of the Cat rang with their impacts, denting toward them.

They're all about power and control. They're the tyrannical thumb pressing a head down to the ground, demanding blind obeisance. They want you to only listen to the word of their leader, instead of the loving word of God.

Je... je bent een meisje!' ... 'Ik ben niet zomaar een meisje,' zei ze. 'Ik ben de dochter van de Glorie van Ra, hij die als een reus over de wereld loopt: de farao Neferhotep, de glorieuze heerser van heel Deshret... Je zou trots moeten zijn,' zei ze, terwijl ze zich met een zwaai van haar gescheurde mantel omdraaide. 'Je bent nu de slaaf van prinses Nefertiti.

Kady!' ... 'Jake!' riep ze. Toen rolde de golf over haar heen en veranderde haar in steen.

Goed dat er nog íémand is die weet hoe hij een koninklijk bevel moet opvolgen! - Nefertiti

Society is a destructive illusion of control, nothing more. And

The strong were always eating the weak.

Guns, grendels, or nuclear bombs; take your pick.

There is nothing in the world more powerful than an idea. No weapon can destroy it; no power can conquer it except the power of another idea.

Such power there is in clear-eyed self-restraint.

Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.

Talent is that which is in a man's power; genius is that in whose power a man is.

He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft.