Quotes About Power

No matter how rich you become how famous or powerful when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather.

The State is not God. It has not the right to take away what it cannot restore when it wants to.

Design is inherently optimistic. That is its power.

You know music and sound design can be very powerful with how you use it but also the absence of sound can say a lot as well.

Whoso desireth to govern well and securely, it behoveth him to have a vigilant eye to the proceedings of great princes, and to consider seriously of their designs.

It is new design by architects versus world revolution by political leadership.

They've been so bloody ruthless that you almost get no choice in the matter.

A crowd is not merely impulsive and mobile. Like a savage, it is not prepared to admit that anything can come between its desire and the realisation of its desire.

One must do violence to the object of one's desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.

I have no desire to go in for tyranny or to play the part of King Charles. I hate tyranny in any field of human activity.

Most human beings, though in varying degrees, desire to control, not only their own lives but also the lives of others

It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak.

The upper class desire to remain so, the middle class wish to overthrow the upper class, and the lower class want a classless system.

The popularity of conspiracy theories is explained by people's desire to believe that there is - some group of folks who know what they're doing

From the desert I come to thee, On a stallion shod with fire; And the winds are left behind In the speed of my desire.

There is a cowardly propensity in the human heart that delights in oppressing somebody else, and in the gratification of this base desire we always select a victim that can be outraged with safety.

The desire to order other people around and make them conform to one own's vision takes many forms.

The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.

The strongest of all psychic forces in the world is unsatisfied desire.

Your impact on the world is significant whether or not you are aware of it, and even whether or not you desire it.

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.

And what does every child believe every adult capable of doing? Of actually being able to bend the world to an inner desire, exactly what the child is busily practicing in his passionate play.

If my desire is possible, it means the system is already letting something else through.

Hollywood desires money but they could not stand the political content.