Quotes About Power

What in fuck do you fucking well think you're fucking doing?' The officer's broad helmet bobbed as he shouted. I thanked all of the gods that he was not a Sikh.

In an age of superchargers, turbochargers, and every other prosthetic breathing aid, this was a normally aspirated V-6 that derived speed from perfection.

Sato said softly, "Bottom-san, please to understand, if you call me 'motherfucker' again, I shall be forced to kill you.

There was just a speck in the center of this T-shirt. But the speck grew larger—became a shirtless man walking toward the viewer—and pretty soon you could see the rapidly approaching man's face. Vladimir Putin.

las mujeres de Troya pueden ser más mortíferas que la mayoría de los hombres que ha conocido en su mundo de los siglos XX y XXI

tornadoes writhing and dropping down like the Medusa locks they were named after

The roof was torn off the gym. God's way of telling the jocks that they'd better remember who's really charge.

We eagles sing no soothing songs. Our throats can only whistle. Instead, we hunt them down, take them from others.

What never fail to draw me in, however, are secrets. Secrets within families. Secrets we keep out of shame, or self-protectiveness, or denial. Secrets and their corrosive power. Secrets we keep from one another in the name of love.

And those who were against the regime felt that music was like a kind of oxygen, because this was the one place where they could really be free. And those musicians who were in favor of the regime were only too proud that such a wonderful institution existed under such a regime.

I may be oversimplifying, but it does seem to me that, as the saying goes, we are what we eat, and that's a cultural statement as well, which means the kinds of families that have been 'flourishing' in this society for a hundred and fifty years, especially in the white middle classes, have become what they have embraced: consumerism; militant self-interest; and wars to subdue 'natives,' obtain international power, and control various governments.

Conflict can become genocidal when powerful groups think that the most efficient means to get what they want is to eliminate those in the way. It can become equally or more murderous when the motive is revenge, and descend to the worst levels of slaughter when there is great fear that the survival of the enemy group might endanger the survival of one's own group.

When kings the sword of justice first lay down, They are no kings, though they possess the crown. Titles are shadows, crowns are empty things, The good of subjects is the end of kings.

And of all the plagues with which mankind are cursed, Ecclesiastic tyranny's the worst.

But, says he again if god much strong, much might as the devil, why god no kill the devil, so make him no more do wicked?

Sure we are all made by some secret Power, who formed the earth and sea, the air and sky. 

if God much strong, much might, as the devil, why God not kill the devil, so make him no more wicked?

A woman's ne'er so ruined but she can Revenge herself on her undoer, Man.

she thought herself very ill used, yet she had no power to resent it

Si una joven tiene belle­za, nacimiento, educación, ingenio, sentido, modales, modestia y todo ello en forma extremada, pero no tiene dinero, no es na­die y es igual que si lo necesitara todo, porque el dinero es lo único que recomienda ahora a una mujer. Los hombres tienen todo el juego en su mano.

There are some secret moving Springs in the Affections, which when they are set a going by some Object in View, or be it some Object, tho' not in View, yet render'd present to the Mind by the Power of Imagination, that Motion carries out the Soul by its Impetuosity to such violent eager Embracings of the Object, that the Absence of it is insupportable.

In any interaction the more high-power person tends to focus his or her gaze on the other person less than others, and is more likely to interrupt and to monopolize the conversation—all signifying a lack of attention.

The ability of the powerful to dismiss inconvenient people (and inconvenient truths) by paying no attention has become the focus of social psychologists, who are finding relationships between power and the people we pay most and least attention to.4

Similarly, of all emotional signals, smiles are the most contagious; they have an almost irresistible power to make others smile in return.