Quotes About Power

I'm Oracle, I know everybody.

There's two things in this world you can't frighten. A hungry dog or an angry woman.

There's more than one way to fuck someone over. Do it hard so they never forget or do it quietly so they never know you were there.

Alliances and international organizations should be understood as opportunities for leadership and a means to expand our influence, not as constraints on our power.

And there in her bewilderment he recognized his grave mistake. He had surrendered himself to Claire, just as Krista had to him. When you give someone the power to save you, you give them the power to destroy you as well.

Every relationship is fundamentally a power struggle, and the individual in power is whoever likes the other person less.

It's all mirror, mirror on the wall because beauty is power the same way money is power the same way a gun is power.

The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because its only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on. If you can change the way people think. The way they see themselves. The way they see the world. You can change the way people live their lives. That's the only lasting thing you can create.

Even a small group of people can change the galaxy.

if there's one mystical energy that powers the galaxy, it's not the Force. It's pure, unadulterated irony.

Stories have the power to make people feel. To give a shit. To change their opinions. To change the world.

A SWORD IS NEVER A KILLER, IT IS A TOOL IN THE KILLER'S HANDS." —Seneca

Practicing qigong is so simple and so powerful. You cannot do it wrong. You can only do it good, better, or best.

Cu Chulainn will] spill the blood of everybody in the fort unless you act quickly and send the naked women out to meet him." ... "Bring on the naked women!" said Conchobar.

It is fortune, not wisdom, that rules man's life.

Laws are silent in times of war.

By force of arms. (Vi Et Armis)

Force overcome by force. (Vi Victa Vis)

Me da lo que quiere darme, sabiendo que voy a aceptar cualquier limosna que venga del rey que le hice creer que es.

si te estás aprovechando de una persona que está en inferioridad de condiciones, estás abusando.

But I don't want your throne." "Then what do you want?" "You.

You touch me again, you arrogant Ardenine swine, and I swear on the blood of Hanalea the warrior, I will geld you. Do you understand?

The only way to get what you want is to make them more afraid of you than they are of each other.

Han smiled, then, a bright, charming smile that lit up the room, more dangerous than any blade. All you ever needed was that smile, she thought. I'd have given in immediately.