Quotes About Power

If I am part of a group of 100 people, do 99 people have the right to sentence me to death, just because they are majority?

The frail, vulnerable sounds of which we are capable seem to be essential to a later ability to roar like a lion without scaring everyone to death.

And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.

Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Death is not cold and frightful. Death is the sun in all its powerful intensity.

That's what I like about [smoking] . . . taking a drag off of death, Mmm! Gives me a sense of controlling my own destiny. What power! What exhilaration! Want a drag?

I have a violence in me that is hot as death-blood.

Authority forgets a dying king.

Suge is the boss of Death Row, the don, you understand? But im the underboss, the capo. That's my job to what's best for Death Row

To those who had ordered them to death, one of them said: "We die because the people are asleep and you will die because the people will awaken."

A male scorpion is stabbed to death after mating. In chess, the powerful queen often does the same to the king without giving him the satisfaction of a lover.

Where the sole employer is the state, [opposition] means death by slow starvation.

It is the Revolution, the magical word, the word that is going to change everything, that is going to bring us immense delight and a quick death.

Dictatorship is a story about death of others who turn out to be you coincidently.

I can teach you how to bottle fame, brew glory, even put a stopper on death.

There's something dreadfully decisive about a beheading.

The world belongs to women. In other words, to death. But everyone lies about it.

Whatever is weak, avoid! It is death.

People here believe in uncontrollable passion, in mad rages, and in the brusque inevitability of death.

If the rich could hire others to die for them we, the poor, would all make a nice living.

Nay, in death's hand, the grape-stone proves As strong as thunder is in Jove's.

Absolute monarchy,... is the easiest death, the true Euthanasia of the BRITISH constitution.

It's pretty impossible to hurt what Death protects.

A great doctor kills more people than a great general.