Quotes About Power

I don't have a dark side at all. I just like violence.

Violence has always been unfortunately embedded in masculinity, this alpha thing.

The myth of redemptive violence - Caesar, peace, and victory - is in people's bones so deeply, we aren't even aware of it. You crush the opposition; that's how we bring peace.

A revolution is an act of violence whereby one class shatters the authority of another.

All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.

The world is ruled by violence, or at least the imminent threat of violence. It always has been.

I have very close friends who are very devout Catholics, and I talked to them before the 'Da Vinci Code,' and it was very difficult for them, but I talked to them before 'Angels and Demons,' and they said the scandal, abuse of power and violence was part of church history, which you can read about in the Vatican bookstore.

A lot of people say, 'I always knew Lucky Luciano as a very smooth, very elegant, very powerful man.' All the accounts of him as an older man were that he was very genteel but he still had the look of smothered violence behind his eyes.

Any society based on domination supports and condones violence.

The fact is that violence gives you a rush.

A new understanding of power is replacing our old understanding of power as the ability to manipulate and control. The old understanding of power has become counterproductive to our evolution. What used to be good medicine has become poisonous. Pursuit of the ability to manipulate and control now produces only violence and destruction.

Passion is all but soft, it's not tender, it's violence to which you get hooked by pleasure.

If there isn't at least the threat of violence in art, it tends to be kind of tiresome.

They're reacting and that's wonderful. It's better than them sitting there doing nothing. I say make them react - do whatever's in your power to move the audience, and if that's where it is, and there where it is with America, sex and violence, then I say project it.

Philosophers are people who do violence, but have no army at their disposal, and so subjugate the world by locking it into a system.

There are certain things that they say you can't do, there are all these secret people behind the scenes who make things available for you to do. That's why you have so much crime and violence.

War has traditionally been a man's work, although we know that often women were the cause of violence.

Greek myths, early Roman history, is configured around violence against women. And I think we need to get in there, get our hands dirty, face it, and see why and how it was.

I'm not saying that women leaders would eliminate violence. We are not more moral than men; we are only uncorrupted by power so far. When we do acquire power, we might turn out to have an equal impulse toward aggression.

When you label them, when one of the most powerful social media companies in the world labels people as Nazis, you could make the argument that's inciting violence.

A woman might be from higher sociology economic background and in a high powered profession but may be enduring severe violence at home.

War is an attempt of one group to impose its will upon another group by armed violence.

The violence in society, I'm afraid, is perpetrated by the people at the top.

We see violence to forcibly seize land, at any price, murders and corruption.