Quotes About Power

Henry looks irritated. He should not have to manage this. Cromwell is supposed to manage it for him. Ease out the Boleyns, ease in the Seymours. His business is more kingly: praying for the success of his enterprises, and writing songs for Jane.

And I ask you—a woman, weak in body, weak in will—can she rule, with all the frailty of her sex?

Slicing the cranium of her husband, the Marquis of Exeter, and stirring a forefinger in the murk of his intentions.

He feels a moment of jealously towards the dead, to those who served kings in slower times than these, nowadays the products of some bought or poisoned brain can be disseminated through Europe in a month

The Commons. God rot them. ... They never think higher than their pockets.

The world is run from Antwerp, from Florence, from places he has never imagined; from Lisbon, from where the ships with sails of silk drift west and are burned up in the sun. Not from castle walls, but from countinghouses, not by the call of the bugle but by the click of the abacus, not by the grate and click of the mechanism of the gun but by the scrape of the pen on the page of the promissory note that pays for the gun and the gunsmith and the powder and shot.

Right is what you can get away with, and wrong is what they whip you for.

I could have told him what I wanted, and threatened him. But I encouraged him; I did it so that he would be complicit.

A man's power is in the half-light, in the half-seen movements of his hand and the unguessed-at expression of his face. It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires.

Hilary Mantel

Storm H. D., 1886 - 1961 You crash over the trees, you crack the live branch— the branch is white, the green crushed, each leaf is rent like split wood. You burden the trees with black drops, you swirl and crash— you have broken off a weighted leaf in the wind, it is hurled out, whirls up and sinks, a green stone.

Oread" Whirl up, sea— whirl your pointed pines, splash your great pines on our rocks, hurl your green over us, cover us with your pools of fir.

Words were her plague and words were her redemption.

As I speak to you today, government censors somewhere are working furiously to erase my words from the records of history. But history itself has already condemned these tactics.

There is no doubt that America remains the premier political, economic, military power in the world, and I both expect and count on it remaining so, because I think that's certainly in our best interest but also the best interests of the world.

Well, I think, by definition, all power has limits.

It is a fact that around the world the elites of every country are making money.

'Smart power' is the use of American power in ways that would help prevent and resolve conflict - not just send our military in.

In every country today, there is politics. It may be authoritarian politics, but there is politics.

There is no greater power than that of a laugh and happiness is a force which can save a person from the horrors of the world.

For black people, being around white people is sometimes like taking care of babies you don't like, babies who throw up on you again and again, but whom you cannot punish, because they're babies.

What woman here is so enamored of her own oppression," she wondered, "that she cannot see her heel print upon another woman's face?

People are quick to make monuments of anything they live long enough to control.

Politicians for own profit call for Bandh of entire city and state. #anshmovie