Quotes About Power

Frightened children are so easy to win.

was good enough when good men held the office, but always when you create an office that a man can lay hands on, an evil man will someday lay hands on it.

Is there something in women that makes us long to be humbled? Or is it something in human beings, that when we are overmastered, we rejoice in our subjection? That would explain a lot of history.

Witchcraft and wizardry had so effectively been denied that his own powers began to weaken, for there were few who contributed to his strength by invoking his name.

Peter had been right, always right; 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.

but the most important message was this: the adults are the enemy, not the other armies. They do not tell us the truth.

War gets invented every time there's somebody so hungry for domination that he can't leave peaceful nations alone.

You get all the pleasures of the puppeteer. Until you get a soldier who can do more than anyone else. You can't have that. It spoils the symmetry. You must get him in line, break him down, isolate him, beat him until he gets in line with everyone else.

What does it matter, to tell yourself that the thing controlling you comes from outside, if in fact you only experience it inside your own heart? Where can you run from it? How can you hide?

But how can you be God, if Justice is more powerful than you?" I am his daughter, five hundred generations from him. Shouldn't the children of God learn something in that time? Lared

We're businessmen, Chubs. The moral high ground is wherever we set it.

This wasn't about killing Bean—that was just a bonus. It was about getting Bean's babies.

That's why I don't want him to take our babies away from me. I must have them all, the way conquerors have had to have this city. I must have them. That is my empire.

Estabas equivocada. Hermanita, hay, quizá, dos o tres mil personas en el mundo tan inteligentes como nosotros. La mayoría se está ganando la vida en algún sitio. En la enseñanza, pobres desgraciados, o en la investigación. Muy pocos ocupan realmente posiciones de poder.

no nation is governable except by overwhelming force or complete cooperation.

Valentine could persuade other people to her point of view- she could convince them that they wanted what she wanted them to want. Peter, on the other hand, could only make them fear what he wanted them to fear.

Tutti gli animali sono uguali, ma alcuni sono più uguali degli altri

Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them! They seemed to be able to give a plastic form to formless things, and to have a music of their own as sweet as that of viol or of lute. Mere words! Was there anything so real as words?

The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.

Ah! The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women...merely adored.

I could deny it if I liked. I could deny anything if I liked.

Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders.

Be happy, cried the Nightingale, be happy; you shall have your red rose. I will build it out of music by moonlight, and stain it with my own heart's-blood. All that I ask of you in return is that you will be a true lover, for Love is wiser than Philosophy, though she is wise, and mightier than Power, though he is mighty. Flame-coloured are his wings, and coloured like flame is his body. His lips are sweet as honey, and his breath is like frankincense.

When bankers get together for dinner, they discuss Art. When artists get together for dinner, they discuss Money