Quotes About Power

I jego jazda, jego pÄ™d w przestrzeni, nie dawaÅ'y siÄ™ porówna? z ich jazdÄ… — byÅ'a to jazda o wiele donioÅ›lejsza, mo?e nawet gro?na...

Yes, you know damned well what you should have done if you sincerely desired their surrender. You could have dropped it [the atom bomb] on one of their mountains, even in the sea, anywhere they could see what would happen if they persisted in the war, but you chose instead to drop it on peopled cities. I know you, the white mentality: Japanese, Chinese, Africans, we are all subhuman. You would drop an atom bomb on Abeokuta or any of your colonies if it suited you!

What else is genius than that productive power through which deeds arise, worthy of standing in the presence of God and Nature, and which, for this reason, bear results and are lasting? All the creations of Mozart are of this class; within them there is a generative force which is transplanted from generation to generation, and is not likely soon to be exhausted or devoured. CHIPS

The organ is in my eyes and ears the king of all instruments.

Opium for tea—a formula which not only explains the successes of English imperialism in the Far East, but which thoroughly typified Europe's relationship to the Third World.

A deranged person is supposed to have the strength of ten men. I have the strength of one small boy... with polio.

In my house I'm the boss, my wife is just the decision maker.

Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little on office supplies.

It's about Russia.

Muerte (Una comedia) Tienen que comprender que yo no puedo competir con un asesino demente. Un maniaco tiene la fuerza de diez hombres y yo tengo la fuerza de medio...A menos que me estén utilizando como señuelo

This is what's out there in matrimonial court. Guys like Judge Wilk. Capricious men with the power to regulate families.

I was trying to balance Soon-Yi's problems with my own, with Dylan, Moses, and Satchel, whom Mia had possession of, complete control over, and a willingness to use them as pawns if and when necessary.

zdolnoÅ›ci twórcze i moc mojej wyobra?ni dalece przewy?szajÄ… mo?liwoÅ›ci zwykÅ'ego entuzjasty LSD.

And why did the women have to sit upstairs in the synagogue? They were prettier and smarter than the men. Those hirsute zealots who wrapped themselves in prayer shawls on the premier level, nodding up and down like bobbleheads and kissing a string up to some imaginary power who, if he did exist, despite all their begging and flattery, rewarded them with diabetes and acid reflux.

Is this not the quintessence of hypocrisy when Ronan writes a book critical of NBC for trying to kill his story on Harvey Weinstein? But, I guess whatever works.

This machine kills fascists.

The world is filled with people who are no longer needed. And who try to make slaves of all of us. And they have their music and we have ours. Theirs, the wasted songs of a superstitious nightmare. And without their music and ideological miscarriages to compare our songs of freedom to, we'd not have any opposite to compare music with --- and like the drifting wind, hitting against no obstacle, we'd never know its speed, its power....

A team of horses cannot overtake a word that has left the mouth.

Hero is he alone who vies with powers supreme!

Never pour the Elixir of Life as if it were an ordinary liquid. He who entrusts the secret of the dark forces to unworthy ears is making his jaws do unnecessary work and talks his tongue dry to no purpose.

El que paga manda. Se lo aprendí tan bien a mi papá que hasta la fecha no he dejado de aplicarlo. Si entiendes eso, todo se hace más fácil. No es cosa de dinero, sino de inversión. El que más invierte tiene la palabra.

Por más que quieras resistirte a él, que te niegues a oír cuando dice tu nombre, que saques tus principios y tus convicciones, que le azotes la puerta en media cara, el dinero siempre va a hallar algún callejoncito para seducirte.

Sólo los hombres fuertes saben obedecer las órdenes de una mujer.

To recognize this situation is not to call for a less calculated kind of leadership: It is always the cunning, not the naïve, who rise to power, and leaders must use artfulness to make any organization whatsoever work well. Yet they must never be guided by cynical and self-serving counsels. If they don't call upon their higher selves, they will descend further into petty egotism and tyrannical behavior.