Quotes About Power

Amazing how a simple satire on satire could have such an effect.

it is technically a Category Two SoulCrime to remove or conceal a Ministry of Pain–assigned famulus from your immediate person." Lightning flared again as, muttering and mouthing, Benji Dog was stuffed back into Courtney Hall's bag.

When dragons fight, everyone burns.

I'm not even the one per cent; I'm the one per cent of the one per cent;

Every war is a profound sexual revolution.

Mr. Durukan, if God is dead then everything is conspiracy.

The sense of power, of human ability, was so strong. Many of the men cried. Men are so easily moved.

The might and magic of money is not what it allows you to own; it is what it allows you to be. Money is freedom.

The geek of the Earth are a tribe and they are mighty.

And though you think the world is at your feet, it can rise up and tread on you.

How can a novelist achieve atonement when, with her absolute power of deciding outcomes, she is also God? There is no one, no entity or higher form that she can appeal to, or be reconciled with, or that can forgive her. There is nothing outside her. In her imagination she has set the limits and the terms. No atonement for God, or novelists, even if they are atheists. It was always an impossible task, and that was precisely the point. The attempt was all.

Little men, stuck in little positions of little authority, are always the worst.

It's all just policy to you, isn't it?" Rebus said. "No right and wrong, legal and illegal, no fair and corrupt … just politics." "Listen to yourself, man," Sir Iain Hunter spat. "What are you, some Old Testament prophet? Who gives you the right to hold the scales?" He dug the tip of his umbrella into the ground

Obsession came easy—especially to men—because it was a cheap way of achieving control, albeit control over something practically worthless.

My father was a slave to capitalist ideology. He didn't know what he was doing." "You mean you went to an expensive school?

And the things that we fear are a weapon to be held against us.

Ideologies and religions persist in politics, sometimes in tension with science, sometimes in tandem with it, partly because of the ways in which they facilitate competition for power in democracies. This process is far from well understood, but few social scientists today would bet much on the hope-or fear, depending on one's point of view-that these forces are likely to become obsolete in politics any time soon.

Be careful of your thoughts, they may become words at any moment.

It should be known that at the beginning of a dynasty, taxation yields a large revenue from small assessments. At the end of a dynasty, taxation yields a small revenue from large assessments.

Earlier, Man ruled woman by force. Now he rules her by making a fool out of her, that is, by making her superior. There is double benefit in ruling by making her superior. She is made doubly responsible. He makes woman superior to himself and brings her out of her home... provides an opportunity to work side by side with him.

Nuclear and Hydrogen Bomb experiments were beyond their comprehension. They could not figure out why a person is incarcerated in a mental asylum when he turns mad and why when a nation turns mad, we start calling it a Power

Their style of government is called Democracy. The purpose of which is that the meat is claimed by a few men and the bones are tossed over to the people. They resolve all their issues with power but call it mutual cooperation. Their rulers call themselves Peoples' representatives. People do elect them for governance but it is the power of their wealth that gets them to the seat of government.

Truth is the ultimate power. When the truth comes around, all the lies have to run and hide.

Slim, I hope you ain't sexed that pretty bitch yet. Believe me, Slim, a pimp is really a whore who's reversed the game on whores. Slim, be as sweet as the scratch. Don't be no sweeter. Always stick a whore for a bundle before you sex her. A whore ain't nothing but a trick to a pimp. Don't let em Georgia you. Always get your money in front just like a whore. Whores in a stable are like working chumps in the white man's factory..