Quotes About Power

Might as well go out flipping the bird to the powers that be killing us.

You call us book lovers, and it's true. We are. And so are you, at heart. You believe in the power of them to change the world.

And knowledge is the purest form of power.

I ended your experiment. Because you're not a scientist. You're a monster. I'm not leaving any of them at your mercy.

The only way to stop a rebellion is to crush it with blood and fire, and to wound them so they'll never dare to raise a hand again.

The problem with ruling by fear is that eventually, when the fear fades, fury replaces it.

smoke rose from my hand as it pressed against the white painted door

Pharaoh has also heard your words regarding the unaccompanied admission of females to this sacred space of the Serapeum, and in his divine wisdom refuses this argument, for women must be instructed by the more developed minds of men to ensure they do not wrongly interpret the riches that the Library offers.

Don't read it. Just shred and burn, or your eyes will melt.

And so the very institution we thought would bring the most light to the world has instead drowned it in shadows, and claimed that shadow as full sun. And we, poor blind creatures, have believed the lie. It

A blank isn't the same. He remembered holding the book, feeling the history of the leather cover someone had tanned and stretched and cut to fit. The paper that someone had laboriously filled by hand and sewn into the binding. Years, heavy on the pages. Morgan had been reading a copy of it. An original. It felt like the old monk's story was part of his own. But when he read it in the blank, it was just words, and it had no power to carry him away.

Women watched their allies as much as their enemies, if they wished to prevent trouble and keep their power. Especially if all of their subordinates and peers were men. Unfair, perhaps, but practical.

Rich men don't look at people like us as human beings; we're pieces they move, levers they pull to get what they want.

Because revolution rarely comes from those in charge.

A petty kind of power is still power.

I want you to know that when it comes, when it all falls down, it's your fault, you worthless, stupid bitch. I should have started with you. But I'll finish with you, one of these days. You think I won't touch you? I will. From the inside out.

Amelie seemed to focus on her again. For a few seconds she regarded her, frowning, and then smiled just a little. So I recall, she said. Not all wars are waged with bullets and swords, indeed. Some are wars of wills and ideas. It's good we both remember that. The smile faded. But not all ideas win the war, and not all wills are strong enough. Darkness can descend so easily.

Library rules the world, son.

We've worshipped lots of gods in our history," she said. "We've killed most of them. You might want to be wary.

It might be called denial by some, but in that moment I thought it was the very strength that made humanity so successful… the ability to transcend reality, to create reality around them, even for a moment

Power holds always the hidden edge of threat.

It's almost like rising to the highest levels of power comes with a side order of sociopathy—who could have seen that coming?

Crepi il lupo. Kill the wolf.

Archimedes said mathematics reveal its secrets only to those who approach it with pure love for its own beauty. But the Archivist has no love for knowledge. He wants only power. You are the club he swings to get it.