Quotes About Power

It seems very unfortunate that in order to secure political preference, people are made Vice President who are never intended, neither by party nor by the Lord, to be Presidents.

Democracy: An institution in which the whole is equal to the scum of the parts.

A prince being thus obliged to know well how to act as a beast must imitate the fox and the lion, for the lion cannot protect himself from snares, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves.

Any piece of art, when you're putting it on a certain platform, if the platform becomes a political place, you can manipulate things.

I always imagine that I want to make art that is going to kill you,whether it's going to do it visually or physically, I'll take either way.

One of the primary services the arts can render to theology is their integrative power, their ability to interrelate the intellect with the other facets of our human makeup.

The end of the republic is to enervate and to weaken all other bodies so as to increase its own body.

To tame the proud, the fetter'd slave to free, These are imperial arts.

I think the mystery of art lies in this, that artists' relationship is essentially with their work — not with power, not with profit, not with themselves, not even with their audience.

SM is an art. Doing it well requires more than a bag full of expensive whips and exotic electrical toys, a closet full of fetish clothes, or a basement filled with bondage furniture.

Only tyrannies understand the power of art.

As I watched him on the stage, my hands were clinched in fists of rage. No angel born in hell, could break that Satan's spell.

I know your breed; all your fine officials debauch the younger girls who are afraid to lose their jobs: that's as old as Washington.

The art of plucking the goose without making it cry out has been developed to a high state of perfection at the hands of the war makers.

The art of war in its highest point of view is policy.

Art is the only power capable of destroying the internet.

Words are hotter than flames. Words are wetter than water.

I was attracted to a lot of different art forms - dancing, painting. But there's something about music that people hold so close. It's such a powerful art form, and that's why I live for it.

Tyranny has no need of arts or sciences, for its policy, which is very shallow and without any refinement, only consists in shedding blood.

Entertainment and art have power. Our culture is molded more so by entertainment than any other influence.

Magic is a powerful art that can support a weak performer.

What thou meanest by seizing the whole earth; but because I do it with a petty ship, I am called a robber, whilst thou who dost it with a great fleet art styled emperor.

Art amplifies voices on the margins-the views and opinions that power silences.

I define "politics" as the on-going collective struggle for liberation and for the power to create - not only works of art, but also just and nonviolent social institutions.