Quotes About Power

Kill the pig! Cut his throat! Kill the pig! Bash him in!

Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill!

He became absorbed beyond mere happiness as he felt himself exercising control over living things. He talked to them, urging them, ordering them. Driven back by the tide, his footprints became bays in which they were trapped and gave him the illusion of mastery.

I have walked by stalls in the market-place where books, dog-eared and faded from their purple, have burst with a white hosanna. I have seen people crowned with a double crown, holding in either hand the crook and flail, the power and the glory. I have understood how the scar be­comes a star, I have felt the flake of fire fall, miraculous and pentecostal. My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are grey faces that peer over my shoulder.

He became absorbed beyond mere happiness as he felt himself exercising control over living things.

The boys were dancing. The pile was so rotten, and now so tinder-dry, that whole limbs yielded passionately to the yellow flames that poured upwards and shook a great beards of flame twenty feet in the air. For yards round the fire the heat was like a blow, and the breeze was a river of sparks. Trunks crumbled to a white dust.

He turned a half pace on the sand. A semicircle of little boys, their bodies streaked with coloured clay, sharp sticks in their hands, were standing on the beach, making no noise at all. Fun and games, said the officer.

They were black and iridescent green and without number; and in front of Simon, the Lord of the Flies hung on his stick and grinned. At last Simon gave up and looked back; saw the white teeth and dim eyes, the blood—and his gaze was held by that ancient, inescapable recognition. In Simon's right temple, a pulse began to beat on the brain.

I got the conch! --Piggy (in Lord of the Flies), attempting Democracy

Eyes shining, mouths open, triumphant, they savored the right of domination. They were lifted up: were friends.

The rules!" shouted Ralph. "You're breaking the rules!" "Who cares?" Ralph summoned his wits. "Because the rules are the only thing we've got!

I'm going up the mountain." The words came from Jack viciously, as though they were a curse.

Roger'?n varl???ndan haberi olmayan, y?k?l?p giden bir uygarl?k, Roger'?n kolunu koÅŸulland?r?yordu hâlâ.

Kurallardan baÅŸka bir ÅŸeyimiz yok ki bizim!

hayal ürünü yarat?klardan deÄŸil, ancak insanlardan korkulmas? gerektiÄŸini söyler.

There isn't anyone to help you. Only me. And I'm the Beast. . .

Eyes shining, mouths open, triumph, they savored the right of domination.

William Golding

Lo sapevi no? .. che io sono una parte di te? Vieni vicino, vicino, vicino. Che io sono la ragione per cui non c'è niente da fare? Per cui le cose vanno come vanno? La risata echeggiò di nuovo. Su disse il Signore delle Mosche .. torna dagli altri, e dimenticheremo tutto quanto.

We don't want you,' said Jack, flatly. 'Three's enough.' Piggy's glasses flashed. 'I was with him when he found the conch. I was with him before anyone else was.

They were black and iridescent green and without number; and in front of Simon, the Lord of the Flies hung on his stick and grinned

William Golding

You are a silly little boy,' said the Lord of the Flies, 'just an ignorant, silly little boy.

Words may, through the devotion, the skill, the passion, and the luck of writers prove to be the most powerful thing in the world.