Quotes About Power

Our supreme governors, the mob.

Alexander at the head of the world never tasted the true pleasure that boys of his own age have enjoyed at the head of a school.

Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs.

La locura, cuando se le estrujan los dedos, hace piruetas increíbles, que dan vértigos, y es fuerte como el amor y la muerte.

The merit of our Constitution was, not that it promotes democracy, but checks it.

Without this, nothing else will profit. Not orthodoxy, or learning, or eloquence, or power of argument, or zeal, or fervor will accomplish anything without this. This is what gives power to our words and persuasiveness to our arguments, making them as either the balm of Gilead to the wounded spirit or sharp arrows of the mighty to the conscience of the stouthearted rebel.

Adev?rata filosofie nu confer? putere asupra lumii, ci ofer? solu?ia dep??irii ei.

Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.

The Athenian strategy moves to the top when things are going well. Spartanism grabs the throne when the world is going to hell.

Here was an arch lesson in the games subcultures play. Reality is a mass hallucination. We gauge what's real according to what others say. And others, like us, rein in their words, caving in to timidity. Thanks to conformity enforcement and to cowardice, a little power goes a long, long way.

Extraordinary individuals are distinguished less by their impressive "raw powers" than by their ability to identify their strengths and then to exploit them.

The NOW is your point of power! You don't have to be who you were The only way out, is in

That, Imperator, is of concern only to myself and to Titus. And further, do not address me as woman. My ancestors were priests at Jerusalem and kings at Megiddo when Rome was a circle of mud huts inhabited by brutes who had not yet learned to weave cloth or even to smelt copper. And as for this meeting, I think that I at least have had sufficient of it—and if you will permit me, I should like to go.

tinha descoberto a profunda diferença entre justiça e moralidade. A justiça era o instrumento dos fortes, para ser usada como os fortes desejavam; a moralidade, como os deuses, era a ilusão dos fracos.

When military men take over, honest men dance to the strings they pull. Your life is no longer your own.

Geronimo [is]...an example of our practice of destroying those who oppose us and then honoring them.

Politicians were beginning to realize that if one cannot have the glory of successful war on foreign soil, one can do almost as well by creating a minor replica at home

Stories are the single most powerful weapon in a leader's arsenal

A waitress, bringing Finkler more hot water, interrupted Treslove's answer. Finkler always asked for more hot water no matter how much hot water had already been brought. It was his way of asserting power, Treslove thought. No doubt Nietzsche, too, ordered more hot water than he needed.

History's lesson is that bullies ultimately defeat themselves.

But you tell me when there has ever been a reign of terror that wasn't instigated by intellectuals and presided over by someone possessed of the madness of the artist.

It is from his grandmother that Henry learns that punctuation can be a weapon. With a comma you can hurt someone.

The weaker the country, the stronger the smile.

I've never read a political poem that's accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants.