Quotes About Power

You've never seen a politician who's kept his promise. You've never saw a politician who wasn't a liar.....They want you to do what they say because their word is better than that other guy...It's not!...All politicians are assholes.

Right, good temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

Anyone who thinks the pen is mightier than the sword has not been stabbed with both.

I'm reminded of a book my father used to read me," she said. "A bunch of elves and things get into a huge war over a piece of jewelry that everybody wants but nobody can wear.

Like People, animals will become frightened and likely do whatever you say if you whip them enough.

You might be afraid of the dark, but the dark is not afraid of you. That's why the dark is always close by.

Villainy can win against one library, but not against an organization of readers.

Historically, a story about people inside impressive buildings ignoring or even taunting people standing outside shouting at them turns out to be a story with an unhappy ending.

Reading poetry, even if you are only reading it to find a secret message hidden within its words, can often give one a feeling of power the way you can feel powerful if you are the only one who brought an umbrella on a rainy day, of the only one who knows how to untie knots when you're taken hostage.

No reality has the power to dispel a dream

Why does anyone have a lot of rules? So they can boss people around, I guess.

She was stronger than Stew Mitchum, or maybe she just wanted something more than he did.

Mr. Poe couldn't think of anything else to say that might have comforted the Baudelaire orphans, but I wish now that I had the power to go back in time and speak to these three sobbing children.

Listen to this, Sunny," she said, when her sister opened her eyes. "'Once a subject has been hypnotized, a simple hmmm word will make him or her perform whatever hmmm acts any hmmm wants hmmm ed.'" " Hmmm? " Sunny asked. "Those are the words I don't know" Violet explained.

A great man once said that right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant. Do you understand what that means?

We didn't care what happened to anything. I'd never done something like that and, even under the circumstances, it was a little fun. I understood bullies better. I understood why you'd want to push things around without caring if you caused any damage.

Like all women she was tyrannized by her biology.

What chance did I stand between the Communists on one side and the Establishment on the other

Doesn't he know that all the world's governments tell lies all day every day, and show no sign of contrition even when they are caught out in such untruths?

When they ask me to become president of the United States I'm going to say, "Except for Washington D.C.

Politicians tend only to like democracy when it is to their personal advantage (From LONE WOLF, p.50)

Always be smarter than those who hire you

Fascism is capitalism in decay.

The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves.