Quotes About Power

croak us for free. He'd suck Nino's ass with a straw.

A bitch aint shit without a man's good whip, & 1 monkey wont stop my show.

Don't get too hung up on working with any one person, because it's like a game of checkers where dudes are hopping over one another all the time, shouting, "King me, motherfucker!" It's checkers, yo. But with a lot of money at stake.

The shit hit the fan in '92 because that was an election year—"Cop Killer" was a ready-made target for the president, the vice president, and the NRA.

and the money is so good, they become intoxicated not only with the riches—they become intoxicated with themselves.

Baby, be quiet! You're not in control anymore. God is in control. And God is going to get you out in His own time." The power of her words knocked me back. What did my mother just tell me?

There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral.

If you want to strengthen an enemy and make him exult - hate him.

Saying of the Prophet The Judge A man appointed to be a judge has been killed without a knife.

For every Pharoah there is a Moses.

No surgeon can treat the wounds of the tongue.

Exercise power by means of kindness, and you may be causing more damage than you could by cruelty. Neither approach is correct.

When the ignorant have become numerous or powerful enough, they have been referred to by a special name. This names is 'the Wise'.

Virtually all organisations known to you work largely by means of your greed.

A king who feared wasps once decreed that they were abolished. As it happened, they did him no harm. But he was eventually stung to death by scorpions.

Do not think that your magic ring will work if you are not yourself Solomon.

Virtually all organisations known to you work largely by means of your greed. They attract you because... they appeal to your greed.

It is axiomatic that the attempt to become a Sufi through a desire for personal power as normally understood will not succeed.

A man must be a Salomon before his magical ring will work. (Hafiz)

It is not always a question of the Emperor having no clothes on. Sometimes it is, 'Is that an Emperor at all?

As swords were designed to kill They did well to make them tongue-shaped. (Anwar-i-Suhaili)

Be a tiger — if you are ready for a tiger's problems.

The thief who has not been caught is a king.

Almost every day I am reminded of Saadi's reflection that there is no senseless tyranny like that of subordinates.