Quotes About Power

Not to fear a person with power--to profess, instead, one's love--is to deny that that person has power.

Power seems to confer on its possessor a mantle of superiority, specialness, and sexual potency, which the envious person desperately wants because he feels himself on some level to be inferior, unimportant, and impotent.

The thing to understand here is that gang rapes and gang or cult killings in times of peace and war are not "senseless violence." They are instead powerful acts of group bonding and criminal enabling that, quite often, have a hidden purpose of promoting the wealth, power, or vanity of a specific leader or cause…at the expense of the innocent.

Zeus, ruler of the gods.

To maintain power requires justice and intelligence as well as force.

If the victor had the gods on his side, the vanquished had Cato.

Human life is under the absolute dominion of two mighty principles, fear and hope, and that any one who can make these serve his ends may be sure of rapid fortune.

thunder and lightning and our world is another place no day will ever be the same no blood untouched

Let them hate so long as they fear.

Let them hate so long as they fear. (Oderint Dum Metuant)

Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.

Wherever the Roman conquers, there he dwells.

A good mind possesses a kingdom.

To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

A great fortune is a great slavery.

There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.

Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.

A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts.

A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.

Arms observe no bounds; nor can the wrath of the sword, once drawn, be easily checked or stayed; war delights in blood.

He who has injured thee was stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him if stronger, spare thyself.

Any great change must expect opposition because it shakes the very foundation of privilege.

The lively power of his mind prevailed, and forth he marched far beyond the flaming walls of the heavens, as he traversed the immeasurable universe in thought and imagination.