Quotes About Power

She knew the world was a stallion rolling in the blue pasture of ether.

He figures that it makes a big man out of him to be passing and passing laws and rules. He thinks that makes him look more like a king. Long time ago he done passed all the laws that could do anybody good. So now he sits up and studies up laws to do hurt and harm, and we're the only folks in Egypt he got the nerve to put 'em on. He aims to keep us down so he'll always have somebody to wipe his feet on. He brags that him and the Egyptian nation is eating high on the hog now.

She must lend her ears to the sounds of mighty words boiling out of futile men. She must bear something in male form, for after all that is what she was born for—a passageway for boy children.

A woman robbed of her love is more terrible than an army with banners.

There was no doubt that the town respected him and even admired him in a way. But any man who walks in the way of power and property is bound to meet hate.

Jes' 'cause women folks ain't got no big muscled arm and fistes like jugs, folks claim they's weak vessels, but dass uh lie. Dat piece uh red flannel she got hung 'tween her jaws is equal tuh all the fistes God ever made and man ever seen.

That was the mystery and the mysteries are the chores of gods.

Le vent revint en triple furie, et une bonne fois pour toutes éteignit les lanternes. Ils restèrent assis en compagnie de tant d'autres comme eux dans d'autres baraquements, leurs yeux s'éreintant contre les murs rudimentaires, leur âme cherchant à savoir si Son intention était de mesurer leur piètre puissance à l'aune de la Sienne. Tous semblaient fixer l'obscur, mais leurs yeux dardaient sur Dieu.

Indians don't know much uh nothin', tuh tell de truth. Else dey'd own dis country still.

I'm not going to abandon the power game, but I'm going to be sure use it to my advantage.

The Republicans abandoned the pretext of democracy to fight a war for power long ago.

A message you abhor has to be trumped with a more powerful one.

There is no power above people power.

Politics is too big a game to feel the absence of a Kamal Haasan.

There's never been an era absent of demagogues.

There's absolutely nothing that the God I believe in cannot do.

I absorb energy, I absorb the good, the bad, I absorb everything. That's what makes me who I am.

War is an abstraction.

Any powerful technology can be abused.

People abusing their power makes me see red.

Since I became accidentally famous, it did give me access and, through that access, power that I couldn't just walk away from.

Things are done according to money these days.

I always sidefooted the ball as I wanted to keep the accuracy on it but I was quite fortunate that I could sidefoot a ball powerfully.

I'd love to be an action hero.