Quotes About Power

Money can buy most things and it is easy for most to become a thing for those who have the most money.

Aristocracy has three successive stages: the age of superiority, the age of privilege, and the age of vanity. Once through with the first, it degenerates into the second, and dies out in the third.

Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel.

We must eliminate all newspapers; we cannot make a revolution with free press. Newspapers are instruments of the oligarchy.

The future belongs to the people, and gradually, or in one strike, they will take power, here and in every country.                   The terrible thing is the people need to be educated, and this they cannot do before taking power, only after. They can only learn at the cost of their own mistakes, which will be very serious and will cost many innocent lives.

We executed many people by firing squad without knowing if they were fully guilty. At times, the Revolution cannot stop to conduct much investigation; it has the obligation to triumph.

To the powerful masters we repre­sent all that is absurd, negative, irreverent, and disruptive in this America that they so despise and scorn. But on the other hand, to the great mass of the American people (I'm referring to Our America, which is everything south of the Rio Bravo)-these peoples derisively called "mestizos"-we represent everything noble, sincere, and combative.

Democracy represents the dictatorship of the exploiting classes.

This is a revolution not a coup . It is either unconditional surrender or we will take down the garrison

What is unbelief but the despair, dictated by the dominant powers, that nothing can really change?

Gretchen's eyes blazed at Henry. 'Don't ever think you can know what I'll do

That was emasculating." "Says the guy wearing the collar.

Gretchen Lowell was beautiful in a very grown-up way, in a sophisticated, confident way. It was more than beauty; it was the power of beauty. She radiated it.

in that moment Archie realised that Gretchen had never told him anything, never let him see anything that she didn't want him to know. She had always been in control. She had always been one move ahead.

Art goes into the world unarmed, vulnerable to every quirk of fate, and it must survive only by its power to move men not to destroy it.

The grandeur and strength or our people and democracy are as big as a forest.

Come on baby, show me what that loaded gun is for

Prayer, even prayer for what God desires, releases power by the operation of a deep spiritual law; and to offer up what one loves may release still more. —SHELDON VANAUKEN (1914–1996), American author and editor

If God would concede me His omnipotence for 24 hours, you would see how many changes I would make in the world. But if He gave me His wisdom too, I would leave things as they are. —JACQUES-MARIE-LOUIS MONSABRÉ

SO LET IT BE IN GOD'S OWN MIGHT WE GIRD US FOR THE COMING FIGHT, AND, STRONG IN HIM WHOSE CAUSE IS OURS, IN CONFLICT WITH UNHOLY POWERS, WE GRASP THE WEAPONS HE HAS GIVEN, THE LIGHT AND TRUTH AND LOVE OF HEAVEN. John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892)

I've heard it said that God made all men, but Samuel Colt made all men equal. We'd see what Mr. Colt could do for a woman.

I was getting the hang of arson. It really sends a message, you know? Not only will I kill your dudes and steal your shit, but I will burn your place down behind me.

She wielded it easily, lightly. She carried it swinging like a baseball bat, only with more poetry to it. It was a frightening thing to watch, this small shadow of billowing grey fabric and sprawling, wild hair splaying out behind her, the axe held at the ready with both hands, poised and prepared.

Even down here, money has plenty to say.