Quotes About Power

One of the Baathists once told me, "If you're not careful, I'll have you put away," and those words meant death.

He came with death held in his paw Which no rat born could face Oh woe to those who break the law Of Sunflash and his mace!

I wanted to look at how people deal with death. Why is Henry Kissinger not in jail and Charles Manson is?

A dead man is the worst enemy alive, I thought. You can't alter his power over you. You can't alter what you love or owe. And it's too late to ask him for his absolution. He has beaten you all ways.

To block the construction of centralized power projects, as not being 'appropriate' or 'sustainable' is to condemn billions of people to continued poverty and disease-and millions to premature death.

I have seen people who practice yoga and Buddhism who are scared to death of the sorcery powers of others. This is absurd.

Kill you all!" The clown was laughing and screaming. "Try to stop me and I'll kill you all! Drive you crazy and then kill you all! You can't stop me!

On pain of death, no person be so bold.

If you think about it, Washington's overwhelming power in the world is founded on death, the awesome arsenal for killing people.

Using death to defeat death... wow. No way the devil saw that one coming.

Break in the sun till the sun breaks down, And death shall have no dominion.

He went in, lean and deadly, and ended the creature with a lightning-fast spike of his blade. It shrieked, likely altering the rest. The death call carried like a mournful song.

To die at the command of another is to die twice.

She knew all she needed to know about the history of the human race: the ruthless and the defenseless. She didn't need the dates and the names. The ruthless and the defenseless, there's the whole fucking deal.

Había dos clases de hombres fuertes: los que eran como tío Monty y Abr Steinhem. , despiadados en su afán de ganar dinero, y los que eran como mi padre, implacablemente obedientes a su idea del juego limpio.

Words aren't only bombs and bullets—no, they're little gifts, containing meanings!

Sabbath had the power, and he knew it, of being no one with anything much to lose.

The authority of beauty is a very irrational thing.

No es preciso tener una visión evolucionada de la vida para ansiar poder, ni para alcanzarlo. De hecho, una visión evolucionada de la vida puede ser el peor obstáculo, mientras que la carencia de esa visión puede ser la ventaja más espléndida.

that the Jews were victims before they were conquerors and that they are conquerors only because they are victims.

A young panther in cufflinks and a pinstriped suit—a panther ready to pounce.

You have to enjoy power, have a certain ruthlessness, to accept the beauty and not mourn the fact that it overshadows everything else. As with any exaggerated trait that sets you apart and makes you exceptional—and enviable, and hateable—to accept your beauty, to accept its effect on others, to play with it, to make the best of it, you're well advised to develop a sense of humor.

What's shocking is not His monstrous features—plenty of gods are monstrous, it seems almost to have been a prerequisite—but that there's no recourse from Him. No power beyond His. The most monstrous feature of God, my friends, is the totalitarianism. This vengeful, seething God, this punishment-ordaining bastard, is ultimate! Mind if I have a Pepsi?

Lindbergh can deal with Hitler, they said, Hitler respects him because he's Lindbergh. Mussolini and Hirohito respect him because he's Lindbergh.