Quotes About Power

Mean king Ahab kept on being mean.

Men had no purpose on earth whereas women were gods walking unrecognized among them.

All that is necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good women to do nothing.

It was funny how so many men were defined by their downfall. Caesar, Fred Goodwin, Trotsky, Harvey Weinstein, Hitler, Jimmy Savile. Women hardly ever. They didn't fall down. They stood up.

So, what do they pay you for...exactly? Slapped around. Tied up. Beaten. Given orders, made to do things. What kind of things? You know. No, I can't even begin to imagine. Lick my boots, crawl on floor, eat like dog. Nothing useful, then, like hoovering?

She was twenty-eight but already jaded. Twenty-eight seemed a particularly unsatisfactory age. She was no longer young and yet no one ever seemed to take her seriously as an adult. People still told her what to do all the time, it was infuriating. Her only power seemed to be over her own children and even that was limited by endless negotiation.

Love. Love wasn't sweet and light, it was visceral and overpowering. Love wasn't patient, love wasn't kind. Love was ferocious, love knew how to play dirty.

Now it would not be the geography of Empire that would make him, it would be the architecture of war.

No woman was ever truly safe. It didn't matter if you were as tough as Sigourney Weaver in Alien Resurrection or Linda Hamilton in Terminator 2 because wherever you went there were men.

not so much an agent provocateur as an agent passif, if such a thing could be said to exist. ("Sometimes," Perry said, "saying nothing can be your strongest weapon.")

It brings joy in sorrow, victory in battle, light to darkness, life to the dead. That is the power of the blood-red jewel which men honor with the name "The Philosopher's Stone.

Your modest savant smiles as he says to his admirers: What have I done? Nothing. Man does not invent a force, he directs it.

That man scorches with his brightness, who overpowers inferior capacities, yet he shall be revered when dead.

Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car.

'Every man a king' - that's my slogan.

Oh man, nobody is as tough as Mr T. Ice T is pretty tough though as well.

I think it's very much a men's thing to be able to have that fantasy to kill the beast.

There is really nothing left to a genuine idle man, who possesses any considerable degree of vital power, but sin.

The man committing suicide controls the moment of his death by executing a back flip.

It's a bad thing that happens to women, but when you look at that term 'violence against women,' nobody is doing it to them. It just happens to them. Men aren't even a part of it.

Elite athletes learn entitlement. They believe they are entitled to have women serve their needs. It's part of being a man. It's the cultural construction of masculinity.

Man's tragedy is that when he can do something, in the end he will always do it

It was not a mere man he was holding, but a giant; or a block of granite. The pull was unendurable. The pain unendurable.

The cheap drama brings cause and effect, will power and action, once more into relation and gives a man the thrilling conviction that he may yet be master of his fate.