Quotes About Power

My dear brother, never allow a woman to hold all of the cards.

Such power, and carried with such careless grace. How that must burden him.

Women prefer to draw blood using words. It can cause just as much havoc, but it doesn't stain the carpet.

How can you become the leader of Romany if you're a prince of Oxenburg? I have three brother. And as Tata Natasha is fond of telling us, there is not room on the throne for four asses.

The value of money is a scam perpetrated by those who have it over those who don't

So many problems, however infinitely varied they first appear, turn out to be matters of money. I can't tell you how much this offends me. The value of money is a scam perpetrated by those who have it over those who dont; it's the Emperor's New Clothes gone global.

So many problems, however infinitely varied they first appear, turn out to be matters of money. I can't tell you how much this offends me. The value of money is a scam perpetrated by those who have it over those who don't; it's the Emperors's New Clothes gone global.

of an aspiring dictator. The gravest peril will come if the mob and the dictator unite.

The value of money is a scam             perpetrated by those who have it over those who don't

The value of money is a scam perpetrated by those who have it over those who don't

The white culture rewarded cruelty with honor and friendship.

The value of money is a scam perpetuated by those who have it over those who don't.

Finding the book was like kissing a lightning bolt.

She did not care.they where obedient. They died at her word. That was important, the rest was nothing.

kneel Your Grace, he said curtly, Unless you presume to tell a man of God that he may also fuck himself? Rhian nearly lost her balance, coming off the last dais step.

One word," he breathed into her ear, so low no one would be able to hear. "One word from your idiot mouth and next time I'll finish the job, I swear t'God." He nuzzled, his lips seemingly caressing her outer ear. "Understand?

Everything Jacen did to grab power was within the law. There's law, and there's justice, and sometimes they're not the same thing.

The monsters don't run the gulags and the death camps and the reeducation centers. Regular people do. If they all had the balls to say no, the likes of Halsey, Zhou, or Stalin could never do it all on their own. Could they?

Somehow, though, they managed to ignore the fact that being the dominant species on Earth meant that absolutely nothing about their position was inevitable or beyond their control.

I shouldn't have to do the foot-soldier work, Tahiri. Be my eyes and ears. I'd hate to have to use ch'hala trees. You're smarter than a tree--aren't you? --Darth Caedus to Tahiri Veila

This is how corruption begins. One small concession at a time. One thing you feel you have to do for a good reason.

Before you handed someone power, you had to ask yourself if you'd be happy with the worst possible thing they could ever do with it.

But such is power, you get it, then you do things with it. And then you have to live with it.

A dog has a military mind. He respects the chain of command. He needs to know who's in charge for the good of the whole pack, and if there's no leader, he'll take the job himself- because somebody has to. The difference between a human and a dog, though, is that the dog doesn't lie awake at night dreaming of having that power. p341