Quotes About Power

Surely there never was so evil a thing as money, which maketh cities into ruinous heaps, and banisheth men from their houses, and turneth their thoughts from good unto evil.

You either master money, or, on some level, money masters you.

Art is sexy! Art is money-sexy! Art is money-sexy-social-climbing-fantastic!

Money can't buy off the lightning.

Money amassed either serves us or rules us.

Sovereign money procures a wife with a large fortune, gets a man credit, creates friends, stands in place of pedigree, and even of beauty.

The true meaning of money yet remains to be popularly explained and comprehended.

We print money. The people that print the money is actually us. The government of the United States of America. By its very nature, we control that, and this system is there as representation of us.

though money is a fine servant, as a god, it does seem to develop all the evil qualities of the slave seated between the cherubim.

I won't cry cause I live to die, with my mind on my money and my guns in the sky.

The media assume that if your life or liberty is on the line and you have a lot of money, you automatically get the best.

Money bought freedom; without it one could never be free.

The democratic process is supposed to be one person one vote, but it turns out that money is talking louder than the votes.

Money has much more power down the ballot.

The smaller the office, the more power individuals with big money have.

... while the Republicans are smart enough to make money, the Democrats are smart enough to get in office every two or three times a century and take it away from 'em.

To a shower of gold most things are penetrable.

A man who knows how to make good bargains or finds his money increase in his coffers, thinks presently that he has a good deal of brains and is almost fit to be a statesman.

The woman had a humble, cringing manner. Of course, she had discovered that, having neither money nor virtue, she had better be humble if she knew what was good for her.

Capitalism is like Japanese Knotweed: nothing kills it off. If there were only two people left on the planet, one of them would find a way of making money out of the other.

I've been related to everything. Even the production; I knew how much it cost, I knew where the money went. It didn't last long, because hierarchy came back again.

Whenever people with money have power over people with less money, you have the potential for exploitation.

It doesn't necessarily always come down to race in the music industry. It can be whoever has the most money, has the most power, and that's really the struggle - dealing with how crazy money is.

Money has a way of trumping even the gravest of enemies over time.