Quotes About Power

The case of Mark Antony affords one of the most extraordinary examples of the power of unlawful love to lead its deluded and infatuated victim into the very jaws of open and recognized destruction that history records.

Julius Caesar BY JACOB ABBOTT WITH ENGRAVINGS

CHAPTER I. MARIUS AND SYLLA.

Genghis Khan BY JACOB ABBOTT WITH ENGRAVINGS

I don't believe that the big men, the politicians and the capitalists alone, are guilty of the war. Oh, no, the little man is just as guilty, otherwise the peoples of the world would have risen long ago! from We Are Witnesses: Five Diaries of Teenagers Who Died in the Holocaust

Most people are far more concerned that they can control their own bodies than they are about petitioning Congress.

Look at them. They're pretending, they behave as though they still have some control over their lives and make momentous decisions about which vegetable to cook first.

There is a fine line between determination and sturbborness; the only difference lies in your power.

Understanding is power and whoever has it has everything.

There are two kinds of women, those who want power in the world and those who want power in bed.

Once you can express yourself, you can tell the world what you want from it. . . All the changes in the world, for good or evil, were first brought about by words.

once you can express yourself, you can tell the world what you want from it... all the changes, good or evil, were first brought about by words.

A man must feel he runs things, but as long as you control yourself, you control him.

Money bought freedom; without it one could never be free.

No one stops to think, though—that maybe there is a reason for the darkness. Maybe people have to be reminded of it—of its power. At night, we go to sleep against the darkness. And if we wake up before morning, a lot of times we're afraid. We need it all though—the darkness and the light.

My fingers curl into fists, automatically This is the way, my mother said, of every baby's hand. I do not know if these hands will become Malcolm's—raised and fisted or Martin's—open and asking or James's—curled around a pen.

what I'm remembering now is her smile, the way she turned it on people and seemed to make them stutter. I was nineteen and had zero idea what this meant—this power, this deep confidence

But who, he wondered in a moment's panic as her nearing heat began to assault him, who enforces the Enforcer?

I've loved you since the first moment I saw you," he said at last, the words rushed and full of rolling emotions. "Sitting there in powder blue and waiting for your killer so you could turn the table and slaughter his heart instead." - Guin (Pleasure)

All of that savage power hidden under so much civility.

Bad enough to disrespect a handmaiden, worse to disrespect the handmaiden of the most powerful man in the temple. Whichever way it was looked at, it was a punishable offense. It didn't matter whether she had identified herself or not. Even the plainest woman should be able to walk the street without feeling threatened or accosted.

don't want to walk around with my imagination to depend on. I have a very evil imagination. It's one of my wicked womanly powers. Much worse than magic." "Is that right?" he asked with a laugh as he turned and crossed over to her. "Oh yes. Lots of exercise involved. I can jump to conclusions in a single bound. I'm more powerful than a murder motive. I'm faster than the town gossip. I am deadly and I must be stopped.

the state is not immoral but amoral; half of it exists outside morality

The prince] dare not let ethics keep him from doing whatever evil must be done to preserve himself and the state.