Quotes About Power

You do not placate a tiger by feeding it your own flesh.

What is the purpose of life if not to conquer? To steal women and land? I would rather be here and see this than live out my life in peace.

We will not stop until the sea bounds us in every direction. I am Genghis who say this and my word is iron.

If you are asking if my family will take what they want, of course they will. The strong rule, Chen Yi. Those who are not strong dream of it.

The eagles ruled the air as the tribes ruled the land.

You have a powerful army, Kublai, but the best force is one you do not have to use.

My son's name is Temujin," he said. "He will be iron.

You have a mighty army, but the greatest force is the one that you don't have to use.

This is my empire , Uriang-Khadai. I will not be made to leave. Ready the tumans for battle, Orlok. I will face my enemies and I will destroy them.

Why do you hurt me? What more do you want?" she asked, tears shining in her eyes. "Power over you, little one," he said, smiling. "What does any man want but that? It is something in the blood of every one of us. We would all be a tyrant if we could.

The greatest joy a man can know is to conquer his enemies and drive them before him. To ride their horses and take away their possessions, to see the faces of those who were dear to them bedewed with tears, and to clasp their wives and daughters in his arms.

For the khan, we will take their cities, their women, and their lands. This is the great raid, the farthest strike in the history of the nation of Genghis. We will not be stopped.

If my brother was made to kneel... you will never walk again.

He wanted his enemies proud and strong, so that he could cast them further down in his vengeance.

My word is iron," Kublai said to the guards, as Meng Guang was led away. "Your people will come to know this, in time.

Predators did not need mercy.

My word is Iron

To be strong - that's the first thing the man must learn. If you don't have strength, others can take you everything you have or make

To be betrayed by those he trusted seems to have ignited a spark of vengeance in Temujin, a desire for power that never left him. His childhood experiences created the man he would become, who would not bend or allow fear or weakness in any form. He cared nothing for possessions or wealth, only that his enemies fall.

He holds blood in his right hand," she whispered. "He will walk with death all his life.

People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws. EDMUND BURKE

Conquering enemy cities was far less complicated than the women in his life, or the children they bore for him.

Behold a people shall come from the north, and a great nation. They shall hold the bow and the lance; they are cruel and will not show mercy; their voice shall roar like the sea, and they shall ride upon horses every one put in array, like a man to the battle.

In the Senate they have as many power as we decide to grant them, do you understand it? If we don't allow them anything, then they have nothing. That which they call ''power'' is made of shadows