Quotes About Power

Slavery is malignantly aristocratic.

My arm strength is probably too strong.

People have to be armed to have power, you see.

I knew some of the army quite well.

You can't arrest me, I'm a rockstar.

Money changes people. It all seemed too big and arrogant to me I didn't feel like a member of the group. Everybody was fighting.

I think 'No' is a very powerful word in our business that is very hard to use early on in your career. But I also think I was pretty arrogant when I was younger... I used that word maybe too much, but it did help me with finding roles that I did like.

Nobody can figure out why it does what it does to human beings. But there is no other art form greater than music.

Women feel that when their power is greatest, they look their best, and that those are their happiest hours; they like power in men, and prefer the strongest even if it is a power that may be their own destruction. I am going to make an inventory of your desires in order to put the question at issue before you.

Um grande amor é um crédito aberto a uma potência tão voraz, que o momento da falência chega sempre.

Women themselves are so happy, and so beautiful, when they're strong, that they naturally choose powerful men, even if that power's so enormous there's a real risk it could shatter them.

When his opponent, after careful conversation, avowed the secret of his own purposes, confident that he had secured his listener's assent, Grandet answered: "I can decide nothing without consulting my wife." His wife, whom he had reduced to a state of helpless slavery, was a useful screen to him in business.

No one has understood this opium of poverty. The lottery, all-powerful fairy of the poor, bestowed the gift of magic hopes. The turn of the wheel which opens to the gambler a vista of gold and happiness, lasts no longer than a flash of lightning, but the lottery gave five days' existence to that magnificent flash. What social power can to-day, for the sum of five sous, give us five days' happiness and launch us ideally into all the joys of civilization?

Ha a n?k elmésnek, tehetségesnek találják, a férfiak el fogják hinni, hogy az, hacsak maga ki nem ábrándítja ?ket. Akkor aztán mindent akarhat, mindenütt megvetheti a lábát. Akkor majd megtudja, hogy a világ nem egyéb, mint megcsaltak és csalók közössége.

We have within us an inward power of sight, an eye of the soul which foresees catastrophes; and the repugnance that comes over us against the fateful being is the result of that foresight. Though religion orders us to conquer it, distrust remains, and its voice is forever heard.

A quotation in a speech, article, or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.

Tout pouvoir humain est un composé de patience et de temps.

whatever rung of the social ladder they are perched, when any interest, no matter what, draws them from their own line of obedience and induces them to grasp at power. In their eyes, as in those of politicians, all means to an end are justifiable

Hatred requires too many forces fully armed. None but public bodies can keep alive the sentiment.

En las alturas, la Nobleza y el Poder; abajo, el Comercio y el Dinero; dos esferas sociales que en todas partes son perpetuamente enemigas; por ello es difícil adivinar cuál de las dos ciudades odiaba más a su rival.

And what is power without recognition? Nothing.

Corruption has come to him with fortune, — as it always does!" he said to himself

This power of awakening a world of grave and sweet and tender memories by a familiar and sometimes lively ditty, is the privilege of those popular songs which are the superstitions of music, — if we may use the word "superstition" as signifying all that remains after the ruin of a people, all that survives their revolutions.

Honoré de Balzac