Quotes About Power

It's possible, in a poem or short story, to write about commonplace things and objects using commonplace but precise language, and to endow those things—a chair, a window curtain, a fork, a stone, a woman's earring—with immense, even startling power.

Organized crime is just the dirty side of the sharp dollar.

He didn't know the right people. That's all a police record means in this rotten crime-ridden country.

Inquiétant, non, un homme qui ne dit rien. Je ne sais pas si vous l'avez constaté, mais quand un homme ne dit rien alors que tout le monde parle, on n'entend plus que lui! Redoutable !

Never underestimate the potential for human stupidity when wealth and power are at stake.

Economics is war pursued by other means.

Desire creates the power.

Vouloir c'est pouvoir

There are only two surefire ways to get people to do what you want them to do. You either put on an iron glove and make them do it. Or you tell them God wants them to do it.

We'll elect any bumbling fool, any champion of mediocrity to the highest office in the land as long as they have God as their running mate.

History's shown us time and again, that mixing religion and politics only brings destruction.

But the winners chose what we should believe in. They chose which writings were sacred and which ones were 'heretical.

We're still dancing to tunes created by men who thought that a thunderstorm was a sig of God's anger.

It's amazing, isn't it? Here we are, two thousand years later, with everything we've accomplished, everything we know, and yet this little talisman still rules the way billions of people live…and die.

framing' - the cunning technique of dumbing down complex, controversial issues and policies by using powerful, evocative, emotive catchphrases and images in order to prejudice and undermine any potential challenge to those polices.

They elected a con man instead, an ignorant crook who craved adoration and did and said whatever it took to win. That tore them apart even more.

I was carrying the sun within myself and could do nothing to impede the tremendous light I was radiating.

The extent of neuromanic imperialism is astounding.

She could knock a man's teeth through his balls with those arms though.

On the brink of a second world war, the United States was the only global power without a centralized intelligence agency. The gathering of foreign intelligence, what there was of it, was relegated to the diplomats and attachés.

white-haired, walrus-mustached man is leading the country right now, but just barely. President Paul von Hindenburg is eighty-four, tottering into senility. A politician half his age is growing in popularity,

John Stuart Mill, highlighting how a small group may be victimized by a larger group

She had learned that evil had the fattest wallet and most chaste face of all.

Spiritual authority from Jesus Christ is never simply a display of power. It is filled with and fueled by love, love for God and love for others. Always.