Quotes About Power

Such was the extent of his power. His fortune bent reality around it. This reality included people—and their perception of the world, like mine, was also caught in the gravitational pull of Bevel's wealth and warped by it.

if they could only see how impossibly removed the two of them were from any sort of actual power.

Most of us prefer to believe we are the active subjects of our victories but only the passive objects of our defeats. We triumph, but it is not really we who fail—we are ruined by forces beyond our control.

to believe we are the active subjects of our victories but only the passive objects of our defeats. We triumph, but it is not really we who fail—we are ruined by forces beyond our control.

I am a financier in a city ruled by financiers. My father was a financier in a city ruled by industrialists.

Walking around Wall Street during the weekend, one gets the impression that the world's affairs have been settled once and for all, that the age of work is finally over and that humanity has moved on to its next stage.

Authority and money surround themselves with silence, and one can measure the reach of someone's influence by the thickness of the hush enveloping them.

During my tests and interviews at Bevel Investments I first learned something I had the chance to corroborate many times throughout my life: the closer one is to a source of power, the quieter it gets. Authority and money surround themselves with silence, and one can measure the reach of someone's influence by the thickness of the hush enveloping them.

Most of us prefer to believe we are the active subjects of our victories but only the passive objects of our defeats. We triumph, but t is not really we who fail—we are ruined by forces beyond our control.

This is the bitterest pain among men, to have much knowledge but no power.

It is the gods' custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.

Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.

Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.

From the foot, Hercules.

The king's might is greater than human, and his arm is very long.

The worst pain a man can suffer: to have insight into much and power over nothing.

The most hateful grief of all human griefs is this, to have knowledge of the truth but no power over the event.

It is the greatest and the tallest of trees that the gods bring low with bolts and thunder. For the gods love to thwart whatever is greater than the rest. They do not suffer pride in anyone but themselves.

They made it plain to everyone, however, and above all to the king himself, that although he had plenty of troops, he did not have many men.

No cities can grow in a dictatorship, because everything stays small when it's being watched.

No gossip ever dies away entirely, if many people voice it: It too is a kind of divinity.

Any given censor is a fool. The very fact that he is a censor indicates that.

Man fears the darkness, and so he scrapes away at the edges of it with fire. He creates life by diminishing the Darkness.

As the Greek said, 'Give me a long enough lever... and I can move the earth'!