Quotes About Power

Once you realize that power will always end up with the sort of people who crave it, I think that there are worse people who could have it than Peter.

What good were the rules of time when the rules of magic contradicted them.

the cruelest, narrowest, most evil people will always rise to power because they'll always be the ones most willing to wrap themselves in the crescent flag and murder people in God's name.

Mine mine mine. That was the curse and power of human beings—that what they saw and loved they had to have. They could share it with other people but only if they conceived of those people as being somehow their own. What we own is ours. What you own should also be ours. In fact, you own nothing, if we want it. Because you are nothing. We are the real people, you are only posing as people in order to try to deprive us of what God means us to have.

If pigs could vote, the man with the slop bucket would be elected swineherd every time, no matter how much slaughtering he did on the side. 

the power to cause pain is the only power that matters, the power to kill and destroy, because if you can't kill then you are always subject to those who can, and nothing and no one will ever save you.

The power to cause pain is the only power that matters, the power to kill and destroy, because if you can't kill then you are always subject to those who can, and nothing and no one will ever save you.

There are maybe two or three thousand people in the world as smart as us, little sister. Most of them are making a living somewhere. Teaching, the poor bastards, or doing research. Precious few of them are actually in positions of power." "I guess we're the lucky few." "Funny as a one-legged rabbit, Val." "Of which there are no doubt several in these woods." "Hopping in neat little circles.

There are so many powerful people in this world who refuse to see any vision they didn't think of.

And the voice of God was in the whirlwind after all, said Thor

came because I commanded." "You commanded. I came. If you want to think you caused my coming, so be it. But God's commands are the only ones I obey willingly.

I was born with more power inside myself than I ever dreamed. But along with it there came no more sense than any other idiotic kid. Somewhere along in here I need to grow up into a man I can stand to live with. A man who doesn't just survive, but deserves to.

Tú no eres una promesa. Tú eres una amenaza

How did I become the one to make this decision for everyone?

the point is, there are times when the world is in flux and the right voice in the right place can move the world

This was done to you by men and women whose only desire was to enslave you; they have succeeded so well that you are proud of your slavery.

There are many steps on the continuum between controlling something and doing nothing at all.

The power to kill is the only power that matters. -Enders game.

That's the way of the world: The princess can disappear, but the witch is forever.

There's greatness in him. A magnitude of spirit.

These other armies, they aren't the enemy. It's the teachers, they're the enemy.

The power to cause pain is the only power that matters, the power to kill and desroy, because if you can't kill then you are always subject to those who can, and nothing and no one will ever save you.

Once you get a storm started, it's mighty hard to slow it back down again.

The world is always a democracy in times of flux, and the man with the best voice will win.