Quotes About Power

You're upsetting a delicate balance of corruption that has existed here for centuries.

Words are the supreme objects. They are minded things.

Agamemnon: Our prayer was simple — to raze Ilium's walls to its roots, kill its heroes, rape its women, enslave its people. Is that too much to ask?

Love, that most banal of things, that most clichéd of religious motivations, had more power—Sol now knew—than did strong nuclear force or weak nuclear force or electromagnetism or gravity. Love was these other forces, Sol realized. The Void Which Binds, the subquantum impossibility that carried information from photon to photon, was nothing more or less than love.

The strongest beings are those who sing themselves into existence.

If there really was a goddess like Sedna who ruled the world, her real name was Bitch Irony.

Words are the only bullets in truth's bandolier. And poets are the snipers.

To be a true poet is to become God.

We were gods then. But even gods must descend from their high thrones upon occasion.

Or the king could die. Or the horse could die. Or he could teach the horse how to talk.

Even if it all fails, it was worth the time," Saul Laski said softly. "The powerful have received their share of the world's attention even when their power has been shown as sheer evil. The victims remain the faceless masses. Numbers. Mass graves. These monsters have fertilized our century with the mass graves of their victims and it is time that the powerless had names and faces—and voices.

The poem celebrated love and loyalty but teetered on the brink of nihilism with its constant thread of corruption through love of power, human ambition and intellectual

relationship between creatures and their creators, the love between parent and children, artists and their art, all creators and their creations. The poem celebrated love and loyalty but teetered on the brink of nihilism with its constant thread of corruption through love of power, human ambition and intellectual hubris. Martin

Las Parcas crearon e inicialmente controlaron el artefacto físico conocido como Alcaudón.

America was a nation that refused to grow up. It was a perpetual baby, a vast, pink, fleshy toddler, now in possession of some terrible weapons it did not know how to hold properly, much less use properly.

the idle arrogance common to such nobodies who have just come into a small bit of power.

Yggdrasill—one of only five of its kind—into a war

Perhaps Nemes and her kind will keep it in a zoo to hunt it when they are bored.

I have a friend, said Baedecker, who said that there might be places of power. She thinks we could do worse than to spend our lives searching for them. What do you think?

But I bet it's more complicated than that. There're places of power—yeah—no doubt about that. But it's like we were talking about last night. You have to help make them. You have to be in the right place at the right time and know it. How do you know it? asked Baedecker. By dreaming about it but not thinking about it, Dave said.

Even places of power are useless unless you're prepared to bring something to them. And I don't mean just the things we brought—they're to the real sacrament what the lump of bread is to the Eucharist. Then, if you come away the same person you were, you know it wasn't really a place of power.

Being born again doesn't mean that you've arrived somewhere, said Dave. It means you're ready to start the trip. The pilgrimage to more places of power, the doomed quest to keep the people and things you love from being caught by the weeds and dragged under.

All humans feed on violence, on the small exercises of power over another, but few have tasted—as we have—the ultimate power.

Ogni forma di violenza è potere, signor Luczak.