Quotes About Power

Teti: "Non sono riuscita a far di lui un dio" Patroclo: "Ma hai fatto lui

He was large, but I was a goddess, and we were of a height. "I need your cloak," I said to him, "and your tunic, at once." His eyes narrowed, and I could see the reflexive no in them. I would come to know this type of man, jealous of his little power, to whom I was only a woman.

No passado, já pensei que os deuses eram o contrário da morte, mas agora vejo que estão mais mortos que tudo, pois são imutáveis e não conseguem segurar nada nas mãos.

That men worshipped him like a god, but no one mourned.

My skin was glowing, my teeth set. My lioness lashed her tail. Does no one the courage? Will no one dare to face me? So you see, in my way, I was eager for what came.

1984 is a great fiction novel to read but it seems like it is becoming the reality we are currently living under more and more each day.

I have the same goal I've had since I was a girl. I want to rule the world.

Sometimes you have to be a bitch to get things done.

Power is being told you're not loved and not being destroyed by it.

Power without guilt, love without doubt....

Power is being told you are not loved... and not being destroyed by it.

There is one more thing," said Mr. Peabody. "Now you must go and pick up all the feathers." ... "I don't think it's possible to pick up all the feathers," Tommy replied. "It would be just as impossible to undo the damage that you have done by spreading the rumor that I am a thief," said Mr. Peabody. "Each feather represents a person in Happyville." ... "Next time, don't be so quick to judge a person. And remember the power of your words.

Rejection is the greatest aphrodisiac.

Give a man a free hand and he'll run it all over you.

I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.

The curve is more powerful than the sword.

When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power.

When the tide sank, all boats were lowered. Trump had proven that the majority of Washington Republicans who had initially opposed him were exactly as craven as he had said they were, as he bent them to his will because they saw personal opportunity or necessity for survival, even after the Capitol riot.

Trump knew that he was being told something he did not fully comprehend, and instead of acknowledging that, he shouted down the teachers.

Power should not be concentrated in the hands of so few, and powerlessness in the hands of so many.

The faerie queen's compassion was even more frightening than her anger.

As if keening on your knees were somehow obscene As if there were a control so marvelous you could teach it to eat pain.

a man who thinks he is a king is mad, a king who thinks he is a king is no less so.

There is nothing you can throw at me that I cannot metabolize, no thing impervious to my alchemy.