Quotes About Power

Of course, I now see that good behaviour is the proper posture of the weak, of children.

Have you ever wondered to yourself why it is that all people like me seem to have learned from you is how to imprison and murder each other, how to govern badly, and how to take the wealth of our country and place it in Swiss bank accounts? Have you ever wondered why it is that all we seem to have learned from you is how to corrupt our societies and how to be tyrants? You will have to accept that this is mostly your fault

The night-soil men can see a bird walking in trees. It isn't a bird. It is a woman who has removed her skin and is on her way to drink the blood of her secret enemies. It is a woman who has left her skin i a corner of a house made out of wood. It is a woman who is reasonable and admires honeybees in the hibiscus.

By then I already knew that I wanted to have a powerful odor and would not care if it gave offense.

I never wanted to live in that place again, but if for some reason I was forced to live there again, I would never accept the harsh judgments made against me by people whose only power to do so was that they had known me from the moment I was born.

Do you know why people like me are shy about being capitalists? Well, its because we, for as long as we have known you, were capital, like bales of cotton and sacks of sugar, and you were commanding, cruel capitalists, and the memory of this so strong, the experience so recent, that we can't quite bring ourselves to embrace this idea that you think so much of.

I shall grow up to be a tall, graceful, and altogether beautiful woman, and I shall impose on large numbers of people my will and also, for my own amusement, great pain.

Unless we rise up against the dark side of evil, The Crown and The Spoon will not survive.

Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.

The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.

The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever.

It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.

He who controls the money supply of a nation controls the nation.

Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.

He was one of the few great rulers whose wisdom increased with his power, and whose spirit grew gentler and tenderer as his triumphs were multiplied.

Power, true power, comes from the belief in true things, and the willingness to stand behind that belief, even if the universe itself conspires to thwart your plans. Chaos may settle; flames may die; worlds may rise and fall. But true things will remain so, and will never fail to guide you to your goals.

Several tons of dynamite are set off in this picture; none of it under the right people.

The council is a place where everyone schemes against everyone else, and people talk incessantly about Power with a capital "Pow".

When CEOs become vampires, Congress outlaws stakes.

How do you English Socialists believe in Empire like that?' Steele said to Holmes. 'Empire is inimical to Democracy and it has no right to exist in a free world.

It's easy these days to buy a nation, but it's quite difficult to take it by force.

Religious fanaticism is simply good politics in the middle-eastern countries.

By the power of faith every enduring work is accomplished.

The calm man, having learned how to govern himself, knows how to adapt himself to others; and they, in turn, reverence his spiritual strength, and feel that they can learn of him and rely upon him. The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good.