Quotes About Power

One good song with a message can bring a point more deeply to more people than a thousand rallies.

The only way to Cuba is with the CIA.

Trust your leaders where mistakes are almost never made And they're afraid that I'm afraid

no religion run by human beings should ever be trusted.

He's dominant, lass. We've all known people who can make you do things for them and go on doing things until you become ill.

what the Agency does is ordered by the President and the NSC. The Agency neither makes decisions on policy nor acts on its own account. It is an instrument of the President ... to use in any way he pleases.

In theatre, presence is the matrix of power; the postmodern theatre of resistance must therefore both expose the collusion of presence with authority and resist such collusion by refusing to establish itself as the charismatic Other.

That's the kind of face you had - the kind that directed the world and made it beautiful.

I can't be a man in this society unless I am in opposition to power. So, resistance is always synonymous with humanity.

I'm not for organizations much - they seem to run people more than people run them.

I don't care if your the President of the United States, the Queen of England, the inventor of the microchip, a bankable movie star, or an ordinary Joe or Jill, you're no paragon in my book, but the same as a zebra or gazelle - a source of protein. In fact, I'd rather hunt you, because you're slow and feeble.

Richard became obsessed with the rush and the feeling of power cocaine gave him. When he was on it, he felt strong, cunning, and invincible. Richard had seen Ruben using a needle since he was twelve, and it was an easy transformation from snorting cocaine to injecting it intravenously.

Satan, he began to vehemently believe, would have approved of the thoughts and feelings he was having, and he started to think maybe Satan would be a more appropriate god, a power, for him to follow and worship.

It's like nothing else; you can't explain its intensity in words. To have that power over life—nothing is more sexually exciting; it's the ultimate, something very few people experience.

Whatever Richard wanted, Doreen secured for him. He was the boss in their relationship. She made sure Richard had money in his commissary account at the jail and sent him books and magazines, writing paper and stamps.

Richard Kuklinski was Roy DeMeo's Luca Brasi.

The whole concept of absolute individuals with absolute rights, and with a contractual power of forming fully defined external relations, has broken down. The human being is inseparable from its environment in each occasion of its existence. The environment which the occasion inherits is immanent in it, and conversely it is immanent in the environment which it helps to transmit.28

In the West, there have been many pre-twentieth century configurations of the self...Each of these selves are part of the heritage of the West. Each of these selves, all sure that they were the one, proper way of being human, all sure that their way of arranging power relations of gender, race, community and age was the one natural arrangement, all sure that their God was the only true God, are the antecedents of our current self. It is a humbling, disorienting vision.

Absolute power can only be supported by error, ignorance and prejudice.

the growth of trade unions into mighty business enterprises.

There are two things that create, protect, and increase a sovereign's rule—soldiers and money—both being dependent on each other. Armies need money and money is acquired by the strength of arms. If you lose one, you lose the other. Caesar

Alexander was and is the absolute embodiment of pure human ambition with all its good and evil consequences.

These fasces were a praetor's visible symbol of the right to use force (hence our term fascism).

To truly understand Alexander we must realize that—perhaps more than any man in history—he hated to lose. Alexander was and is the absolute embodiment of pure human ambition with all its good and evil consequences. We can condemn the death and destruction he left in his wake as he strode across the world like a colossus, but in the end we can't help but admire a man who dared such great deeds.