Quotes About Power

There is so much darkness in Ember, Lina. It's not just outside, it's inside us, too. Everyone has some darkness inside. It's like a hungry creature. It wants and wants and wants with a terrible power. And the more you give it, the bigger and hungrier it gets.

The trouble with anger is, it gets hold of you. And then you aren't the master of yourself. Anger is.

Maybe. The trouble with anger is, it gets hold of you. And then you aren't the master of yourself any-more. Anger is.

Tick wanted power. He wanted glory. He wanted war, with himself in command. He had raised his army

Tick wanted power. He wanted glory. He wanted war, with himself in command. He had raised his army by attacking his own people.

She looked powerful, Lina thought, even though she was very short.

The trouble with anger is, it gets hold of you. And then you aren't the master of yourself any-more. Anger is.

We are tanks and guns. We are force of history. We will crush them beneath our heels like bugs.

History gets written by the winners, he said, and when the crooks win, you get crooked history.

I was torturing the fire, giving it life, and snuffing it out.

Sometimes the so-called law is nothing but the haves telling the have-nots to stay in their place.

That was the thing to remember about all monsters, Dad said: They love the freighter people, but the minute you stare them down, they turn tail and run.

I know what it's like to be beholden to kin, to be dependent on their kindness, all the while knowing they can cut you off with a snap of the fingers.

not this lords-of-the-earth crap, trying to rule the entire goddamn planet, cutting down all the forests and killing every creature you couldn't bring to heel.

Freedom of the press belongs to anyone who owns one

Once freedom lights its beacon in man's heart, the gods are powerless against him.

Thus it amounts to the same thing whether one gets drunk alone or is a leader of nations.

Faire souffrir c'est posséder et créer tout autant que détruire.

Le secret douloureux des Dieux et des rois: c'est que les hommes sont libres. Ils sont libres Egisthe. Tu le sais, et ils ne le savent pas.

Revolutionary man must be a contingent being, unjustifiable but free, entirely immersed in the society that oppresses him, but capable of transcending this society by his effort to change it. Idealism mystifies him in that it binds him by rights and values that are already given; it conceals from him his power to devise roads of his own. But materialism also mystifies him, by depriving him of his freedom. The revolutionary philosophy must be a philosophy of transcendence.

What were you hoping, when you removed the gags that stopped up these black mouths? That they would sing your praises? Did you think, when the heads our fathers had ground into the dust had raised themselves up again, you would see adoration in their eyes? Here are black men standing, men looking at us, and I want you to feel, as I do, the shock of being seen. For the white man has, for three thousand years, enjoyed the privilege of seeing without being seen. - Black Orpheus

Quand une fois la liberté a explosé dans une âme d'homme, les Dieux ne peuvent plus rien contre cet homme-là. Car c'est une affaire d'homme, et c'est aux autres hommes — à eux seuls — qu'il appartient de le laisser courir ou de l'étrangler.

Le secret douloureux des Dieux et des rois : c'est que les hommes sont libres. Ils sont libres, Égisthe. Tu le sais, et ils ne le savent pas.

The Lord gave us power in proportion to the work to be done, and strength according to the race set before us, and grace and help as our needs required.