Quotes About Power

There was something terribly enthralling in the exercise of influence. No other activity was like it. To project one's soul into some gracious form, and let it tarry there for a moment; to hear one's own intellectual views echoed back to one with all the added music of passion and youth;

Women rule the world. I assure you we can't bear mediocrities. We women, as some one says, love with our ears, just as you men love with your eyes, if you ever love at all.

Sir John's temper since he has taken seriously to politics has become quite unbearable. Really, now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.

There are terrible temptations that it requires strength--strength and courage--to yield to. To stake all one's life on one throw--whether the stake be power or pleasure I care not--there is no weakness in that. There is a horrible, a terrible, courage.

If a woman wants to hold a man she has merely to appeal to what is worst in him.

There is no such thing as a good influence, Mr. Gray. All influence is immoral - immoral from the scientific point of view.

What most people don't understand about lawyers is that they're all scared shitless to actually fight with one another.

standing tall on his own hind legs in the cockpit of a fifty-foot black cigarette boat with a silver Uzi in one hand and a magnum of smack in the other, always running ninety miles an hour with no lights and howling Old Testament gibberish at the top of his bleeding lungs.…

All around us, insurance companies with patriotic names are housed in gigantic towers of white plaster. Here prestigious law firms perform their business for rich people who live next to jaded movie stars

We were at the home base of the holy man who encouraged presidents to drop bombs on poor Cockroaches in far-off villages in Vietnam

Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change – it can not only move us, it makes us move.

The press today is an army with carefully organized weapons, the journalists its officers, the readers its soldiers. The reader neither knows nor is supposed to know the purposes for which he is used and the role he is to play.

Through money, democracy becomes its own destroyer, after money has destroyed intellect.

Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes.

At the beginning a man was wealthy because he was powerful — now he is powerful because he has money. Intellect reaches the throne only when money puts it there. Democracy is the completed equating of money with political power.

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In the make-up of human beings, intelligence counts for more than our hands, and that is our true strength.

for no god may undo what another god has done...

who can carry The incineration of a Universe?

you put too much faith in the power of the gods, if you think they can give and take away the shape of things

When lizard-footed giants climbed the hills And with a hundred hands clawed at the sky.

Non inpune feres neque'' ait ''reddere Canenti, laesaque quid faciat, quid amans, quid femina disces rebus'' ait ''sed amans et laesa et femina Circe!

May the world near and far dread the sons of Aeneas, and if there be land that feared not Rome, may it love Rome instead.

Let the storm have its will of man – but let storm and poem reach their end, I pray, each at the same time!