Quotes About Power

He who controls the heartland controls the world.

It was not that authority came without crushing weight, just that the alternative was living at another's whim.

They had learned that Sorhatani expected the same sort of instant obedience as her husband. She had grown up around men of power and had married into the great khan's family at a very young age. She knew that men prefer to follow, that it takes an effort of will to lead. She had that will.

We would all be a tyrant if we could.

We're wolves, boy, and a wolf doesn't ask for the goat it kills.

an arrow doesn't care who it kills.

Sometimes, power could change hands as quickly as a knife thrust.

A wolf doesn't think about refined thing. He only cares that his pack is strong and that no other wolf dares to cross his way

You will revenge my father's death and we will be one tribe across the face of the plains, one people. As it should always have been. Let the Tartars fear us then. Let the Chin fear us.

We were so young then, but by the sky father, I am not that young man who had never seen the swollen dead. I am khan. It is done and I would not change it." He clenched his fist, taking pleasure in his own strength. "I will not let another stand in my place.

Whoever controls the heart of the land, controls the world

Every man should be khan in his own home.

This is no game of thrones, but real endings and real blood.

If they love you, they will do what you wish,but only WHEN they want to. If they fear you, they will do what you wish EXACTLY when you wish. So, is it better to love or fear you?

If they love you, they will do what you wish,but only WHEN they want to. If they fear you, they will do what you wish EXACTLY when you wish. So, is it better to love or to fear you?

I am the rightful khan of the nation. I am the gur-khan. My word is iron and my word is law.

The Senate are simply men, and men rarely do what is right. Most of the time, they do what they are persuaded, or ordered, or frightened into doing.

A golden bribe can change hands at voting, but the true value in Rome is influence and favor.

The great lie of cities is that we are all too weak to stand against those who oppress us. Al I have done is see through that lie. I always fight, Kachiun. Kings and shahs depend on people remaining sheep, too afraid to rise up. All I ever did was realize I can be a wolf to them.

Conn Iggulden

God had mercy, he knew. The Mongols had none.

I will be khan of them all. We are one people and one man can lead them. How else can we take the cities of the Chin?

A power is seductive

If it's got a beard or a battery, you're going to have trouble with it.