Quotes About Power

I feel most empires fell when they started to act human, but then look at Russia. They kept a pretty strong hand, and they fell from Afghanistan alone because Afghanistan is the graveyard of empires. I guess you just can't sustain it.

The green sea swept into the shallows and seethed there like slaking quicklime. It surged over the rocks, tossing up spangles of water like a juggler and catching them deftly again behind. It raced knee-deep through the clefts and crevices, twisted and tortured in a thousand ways, till it swept nuzzling and sucking into the holes at the base of the cliff. The whole reef was a shambles of foam, but it was bright in the sun, bright as a shattered mirror, exuberant and leaping with light.

Every state protects the privileges of the powerful.

The mentally healthy individual is he who habitually calls upon fairly deep levels of vital reserves. An individual whose mind is allowed to become dormant - so that only the surface is disturbed - begins to suffer from'circulation problems'. Neurosis is the feeling of being cut off from your own powers.

I'd trusted in my own strength about so many things. I realized God delights in using the weak and fearful.

Prayer was their best weapon now.

Princess Lurelia.

With one vicious kick to his head, Dom

What are you doing?" Kneeling before a goddess." I'm not a goddess." You are. A goddess, a princess, a queen. As a soldier, I pledge myself to your service. As a prince, I grant you any boon within my power. As a man, I ask to sit at your feet and worship you. Ask me to do anything for you and I will do it.

Off with his head—so much for Buckingham.

Stolen bodies working stolen land. It was an engine that did not stop, its hungry boiler fed with blood.

If niggers were supposed to have their freedom, they wouldn't be in chains. If the red man was supposed to keep hold of his land, it'd still be his. If the white man wasn't destined to take this new world, he wouldn't own it now. Here was the true Great Spirit, the divine thread connecting all human endeavor--if you can keep it, it is yours. Your property, slave or continent. The American imperative.

War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.

La dictature c'est "Ferme ta gueule !", la démocratie c'est "Cause toujours !

Behind every war stands those whom seek to gain from it.

Creation holds in its nature an ability to destruct.

Manipulation is the most powerful and therefore is the deadliest of all weapons.

Many have tried and all have failed; this world will never be ruled by one.

Only a fool will try and take over this world.

Our greatest weapon is the mind.

Revolution is bloody, yet better still than living in a land of lies.

The greatest writers can project their message in the fewest of words.

The keeper of the knowledge is the keeper of the power.

To demotivate is to murder.