Quotes About Power

LOVE is the most powerful force in the entire Universe. It is the glue that will bond our belief together, instead of the doctrine that does it for the other systems. Love is not being recognized for its power, and it is not being used by us correctly.

YOU WILL REIGN IN TERROR WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT! To do otherwise would make a laughing stock of us both.

I don't care about the little guy. I just hate the big guy. I hate big smug people who think they can get away with things.

hit them fast, hit them hard, and hit them a lot

A man's success in business today turns upon his power of getting people to believe he has something that they want.

Cities are the huge central dynamos of all being. The power of a man can be measured today by the mile, the number of miles between him and the city; that is, between him and what the city stands for -- the centre of mass.

Crowds speak in heroes.

If you have to tell someone you're powerful and famous, then either you aren't or you're embarrassingly insecure.

Get the United States to start a war so they won't intrude in yours.

The bad guys are whoever it is who think they are better than everybody else. This world needs to be turned upside down.

This needed to be handled with finesse, but you have all the finesse of the Hulk on meth.

Of course it is. Likes are power," Mintner said, and looked at Eve. "You know what I'm saying. Isn't that how you became a homicide detective?

You learn how to coerce people to do your bidding . . . willingly.

Don't take me for a fool, Eve. That's not why you did it. You made a political calculation. You know that the DA hates me and wants to be the next mayor. You figured that aligning yourself with him would benefit you more than being tied to a sheriff who is already smeared by a prison-beating scandal.

You really think you can get away with punishing a detective who was shot by a deputy and two days later, despite her wounds and her place getting firebombed, caught the killer of a city councilman? She has your balls in a vise and knows it.

the world learned that Lady Liberty will shove her torch of freedom up your ass if you fuck with us.

Yeah," Snell said, waving a Ferrari past the truck but looking at Eve as he did it, "the same people you're giving blow jobs to every day to get your TV show. The only difference between you and Detective Garvey is that he earned his badge and doesn't have to betray other cops to get ahead.

I exposed the deputies who give favorable treatment to celebrities for drunk driving and wife beating. They hate me, too.

sweeping relaxation of civil liberties

There are few things we can control; our emotions are not among them.

London was the heart of the greatest empire ever known; a financial and mercantile hub for the world; but it was also infamously filthy.

He took over, and he said: 'If I have to shoot 200,000 students to save China from another 100 years of disorder, so be it.'" - Recalling how former Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping dealt with the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests

Supposing Catherine Lim was writing about me and not the prime minister...She would not dare, right? Because my posture, my response has been such that nobody doubts that if you take me on, I will put on knuckle-dusters and catch you in a cul de sac...Anybody who decides to take me on needs to put on knuckle dusters. If you think you can hurt me more than I can hurt you, try. There is no other way you can govern a Chinese society.

Start with putting three of your friends to jail. You definitely know what for, and people will believe you