Quotes About Power

He said she went around with her feelings out in front of her with an arm around the feelings' windpipe and a Glock 9 mm. to the feelings' temple like a terrorist with a hostage, daring you to shoot.

The freedom to be lords of our own tiny skull-sized kingdoms, alone at the centre of all creation.

Johnny Gentle, the first U.S. President ever to swing his microphone around by the cord during his Inauguration speech.

Look for a candidate who can do to the electorate what corporations are learning to do, so Government—or, better, Big Government, Big Brother, Intrusive Government—becomes the image against which this candidate defines himself. Though

Like the doctrine of determinism, its better-known metaphysical cousin, fatalism holds that it is not in our power to do anything other than what we actually end up doing.

It'd be like casting a ballot for Stalin: you are voting for an end to all voting.

OCCIDERE POSSUNT SED TE EDERE NON POSSUNT NEFAS EST

The Great White Male is rap's Grand Inquisitor, its idiot questioner, its Alien Other no less than Reds were for McCarthy.

Movies are an authoritarian medium. They vulnerabilize you and then dominate you

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and the tumescence of O.N.A.N.ism.

no man put his tongue on D. W. Gately and lived

Baby Pictures of Famous Dictators.

I discovered the latent rage in followers, the fate of the leader who falls from the mob's esteem.

Marathe shifted in his chair. 'In a case such as this you become the slave who believes he is free.

I am a giant, a mountain, a planet. Everything else is far off below. My footsteps are countries, my shadow a time zone. I watch from high windows. I wash in high clouds.

The second shift's 1600h. siren down at Sunstrand Power & Light is creepily muffled by the no-sound of falling snow.

In America, we think of rebellion as this very sexy thing that involves action and force and looks good.

All the good things on this earth are trophy cups. The strong win them. The weak lose them. from a speech by the Nazi Minister of Education

For as nothing can fall to the Earth, but because it has the Nature of the Earth in it; so it is a Truth of the utmost Certainty, that nothing can ascend towards Heaven, or have the least Power to unite with it, but that very Spirit which came down from Heaven, and has the Nature of Heaven in it.

Nothing matters in this goddamned lunatic asylum of a world but dough.

La gente è sempre in ansia. Puoi tenere in pugno chi vuoi, se scopri di cosa ha paura.

He had placed himself at her feet so long that the poor little woman had been accustomed to trample upon him. She didn't wish to marry him, but she wished to keep him. She wished to give him nothing, but that he should give her all. It is a bargain not unfrequently levied in love.

It is an awful thing to get a glimpse, as one sometimes does, when the time is past, of some little little wheel which works the whole mighty machinery of FATE, and see how our destinies turn on a minute's delay or advance, or on the turning of a street, or on somebody else's turning of a street, or on somebody else's doing of something else in Downing Street or in Timbuctoo, now or a thousand years ago.