Quotes About Power

ON the decline of the Roman power, about five centuries after Christ, the countries of Northern Europe were left almost destitute of a national government.

I'm not interested in a balance of power in order to have power for the Green party. What I'm interested in is the balance of responsibility.

As a general rule, girls at the gym are not interested in a free power clean lesson from some doofus in a form-fitting Under Armour ensemble.

Democracy is not perfect.

Our light-speed, globally connected economy has led to the rise of a new super-elite that consists, to a notable degree, of first- and second-generation wealth.

And by the way, I wanted to point out that Kindred is not science fiction. You'll note there's no science in it. It's a kind of grim fantasy.

Nothing made by brute force lasts.

Nothing is impossible on 'Game of Thrones.'

Nothing is impossible for God.

To he who avenges a father, nothing is impossible.

There are those who believe that power is up above, and they don't notice that it's actually in the hearts of the great masses.

All, or nearly all, the advantage there is in fixing any constitutional limits to the power of a government, is simply to give notice to the government of the point at which it will meet with resistance.

Why do I have an issue with banks? They have their greedy fingers in everyone's money. No other industry has the power to deduct a bill or fees directly from your own bank account without so much as a notice.

When you start dictating culture, money gets involved and people take notice.

For some reason, men in politics seem to have a bunch of charisma, and women drop around their feet. I haven't noticed that so much for me and men.

I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.

This notion that borders wouldn't matter, that we would have commonality of interests around the world. Well, guess who got there first? The plutocrats.

It's a philosophy that - 'We, the People' - it's about us, that if the Americans want to do something, they have the power to try to put leaders in place to carry out whatever their notions are.

The ruling classes today nourish the conviction that national hatreds and rivalries are inevitable.

There's a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.

No novel has ever changed anything, as far as I can see.

The state of childhood resonates with life inside a fantasy novel. If you have no control over how you spend large chunks of your day, or are at the mercy of flawed giant beings, then the desire to bend the laws of the world by magic is strong and deep.

Novels give you the opportunity to create a whole world. Because you create people, you make them talk... You decide who they are, whether they live or die. It's the closest thing to feeling like a god that you can come to.

If there's anything Trollope novels always take seriously, it is money - how it flows from one character to another, how it is managed, who has it, who deserves it, and what it means to a character, male or female.