Quotes About Power

I used to wish there was a useful term for those of us who thought American power should be used to remove psychopathic dictators.

bowdlerized, censored, suppressed and maybe even burned by the public hangman. But people who believe in this diabolical power of words and/or ideas and/or images

Words matter deeply to the authors of Proverbs, for they see words as powerful vehicles of good or evil, just as much so as actual deeds.

Whisper to the flashing water your real name, write your signature in the sand, and shout your identity to the sky until it answers to you in thunder.

Sometimes humans feel a need to prove they are the dominant race of a species and they inadvertently take kindness for weakness from another individual.

Apart from trade, the main form of interaction between nations is war.

If we remain relatively stable and unchanging in terms of our thinking, then the very power of life for change and creation will become exhausted.

Because politics rests on an irreducible measure of coercion, it can never become a perfect realm of perfect love and justice.

The notion that egalitarian purposes could be served by the "restoration" of upward mobility betrayed a fundamental misunderstanding. High rates of mobility are by no means inconsistent with a system of stratification that concentrates power and privilege in a ruling elite. Indeed, the circulation of elites strengthens the principle of hierarchy, furnishing elites with fresh talent and legitimating their ascendancy as a function of merit rather than birth.

Capitalism has severed the ties of personal dependence only to revive dependence under cover of bureaucratic rationality.

We long for the suspension of self-consciousness, of the pseudo-analytic attitude that has become second nature; but neither art nor religion, historically the great emancipators from the prison of the self, retain the power to discourage disbelief. In a society based so largely on illusions and appearances, the ultimate illusions, art and religion, have no future.

I associate heavy metal with fantasy because of the tremendous power that the music delivers

Money can't buy love, but it improves your bargaining position.

Tamburlaine, the Scourge of God, must die.

Is it not passing brave to be a king,And ride in triumph through Persepolis?

While money doesn't buy love, it puts you in a great bargaining position.

Our swords shall play the orators for us.

You stars that reigned at my nativity, whose influence hath allotted death and hell.

What are kings, when regiment is gone, but perfect shadows in a sunshine day?

Money can't buy love, but it improves your bargaining position.

But what are kings, when regiment is gone, But perfect shadows in a sunshine day? - Edward II, 5.1

It lies not in our power to love or hate, For will in us is overruled by fate.

If you can run six miles on a summer day, then you, my friend, are a lethal weapon in the animal kingdom.

Beyond the very extreme of fatigue and distress, we may find amounts of ease and power we never dreamed ourselves to own; sources of strength never taxed at all because we never push through the obstruction." As