Quotes About Power

Talc: You have been found guilty of misleading and perverting the young. I decree that you be hung by your underdeveloped testicles until dead. ZORRO

Already he was polishing a few carefully worded accusations designed to reduce his mother to repentance or, at least, confusion. He often had to keep her in her place.

Almost everyone else has had an opportunity to run the world. I cannot see why these people should not be given their chance.

The power-crazed leaders of the world would certainly be surprised to find that their military leaders and troops were only masquerading sodomites who were only too eager to meet the masquerading sodomite armies of other nations in order to have dances and balls and learn some foreign dance steps.

He lunged at the glove, deflowering it, stabbing it, conquering it.

Wealth is the relentless enemy of understanding

I would now, however, more strongly emphasize, and especially as to the United States, the inequality in income and that it is getting worse—that the poor remain poor and the command of income by those in the top income brackets is increasing egregiously. So is the political eloquence and power by which that income is defended. This I did not foresee.

Here in briefest form is the modern political dialectic. It is an unequal contest: the rich and the comfortable have influence and money. And they vote. The concerned and the poor have numbers, but many of the poor, alas, do not vote. There is democracy, but in no slight measure it is a democracy of the fortunate.

the heavy load of debt incurred in the effort to obtain and retain control during the years of financial pillage and devastation.

Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.

Leverage was magnificently available

the scornful force of his tone turned the word into a curse

I did not stop to think that one wave is inevitably followed by another even larger and more powerful, when the tide is coming in.

It was only long after that I recognized sarcasm as the protest of people who are weak.

considered authority, the necessary evil against which happiness was achieved by reaction...

tacit way in which feeling becomes stronger than thought

Don't use your upbringing as excuse, use it as power.

When it gets down to having to use violence, then you are playing the system's game. The establishment will irritate you – pull your beard, flick your face – to make you fight. Because once they've got you violent, then they know how to handle you. The only thing they don't know how to handle is non-violence and humor.

They keep you doped with religion, and sex, and T.V. And you think you're so clever and classless and free But you're still fucking peasants as far as I can see

There's room at the top, they are telling you still. But first you must learn how to smile as you kill!

If you want to be like the folks up on the hill, you have to learn to smile while you kill

Millions of mind guerrillas Putting their soul power to the karmic wheel.

Whatever God thought about it, the old dictator's ghost was not so easily exorcized after all.

It followed that anyone who could strengthen a fortification, repair a boat, power an oar, pay others to do these things, or even bring up a child who might someday do them, would be serving the state.