Quotes About Power

Jim Brown will give you that leg and then take it away from you. Jim Taylor will give it to you and then ram it through your chest.

My word will be final.

Leadership is based on a spiritual quality -- the power to inspire.

THEREFORE I SAY UNTO THEE: COME FORTH UNTO ME FROM THINE ABODE IN THE SILENCE, UNUTTERABLE WISDOM, ALL-LIGHT, ALL-POWER! THOTH, HERMES, MERCURY, ODIN, BY WHATEVER NAME I CALL THEE, THOU ART STILL UN-NAMED AND NAMELESS TO ETERNITY! COME THOU FORTH, I SAY, AND AID AND GUARD ME IN THIS WORK OF ART.

A man with a club is a law-maker.

Strength is an empty shell.

The greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.

In this world, a man must be either anvil or hammer.

Ah! vainest of all things Is the gratitude of kings.

There in seclusion and remote from men The wizard hand lies cold, Which at its topmost speed let fall the pen, And left the tale half told. Ah! who shall lift that wand of magic power, And the lost clew regain? The unfinished window in Aladdin's tower Unfinished must remain!

Youth wrenches the sceptre from old age, and sets the crown on its own head before it is entitled to it.

Stronger than steel is the sword of the Spirit; Swifter than arrows, the light of the truth.

I would hear him say: "Lord, You turn the wheels of the galaxies. You know what makes the planets spin, and You know what makes this watch run. . .

Except for God, the King's our only lord.

Will is the pimp of appetite.

Wolves eat cats for dinner. By God, I wanna be a wolf. ~Kane Tyler~

You have five minutes to call someone, anyone, I don't care who, and order me the finest blend of coffee that rat hole town has, and a dozen beers. If it's not sitting on this table..." a slender finger pointed furiously at the table in question,"... in one hour, you die" - Faith telling Jacob

Fire is fed by fire. The same small flame destroys Two stalks of wheat at once.

Damned, damned be the rich! May not even their fingernails be left!... I'm sure that they are going to Hell head-first.

The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the party that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections.

The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern.

There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.

Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely.

The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections.