Quotes About Power

who offered to make him bishop of Strasbourg if he would stay.

willing to gamble that war would make them richer.

there is no denying that his reign got off to a terrible start with the murder of his brother.

Aldfrith grew tired of the constant arguments and banished the troublesome bishop from his kingdom for a second time.68

Scandinavians started seizing this wealth because they realized it was theirs for the taking.

the old king died not long afterwards in January 858. The elder son retained the position he had usurped,

were now subject to the authority of a single secular ruler: the king of Mercia.

he was actually in his mid-twenties at the time of his accession.

Alchfrith was King Oswiu's eldest son, and a king in his own right

What I'm saying is that we all hold, in our minds, the ability to create images that would break us in half.

simple matter of physics, then, made the Central Arizona Project even worse, in an economic sense, than the Colorado River Storage Project. But politics demanded that it be built, and in the 1960s, Arizona had power.

OZYMANDIAS I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert . . . Near them, on the sand

In 1904, the newly created Los Angeles Department of Water and Power issued its first public report. 'The time has come,' it said, 'when we shall have to supplement the supply from another source.' With that simple statement, William Mulholland was about to become a modern Moses. But instead of leading his people to the promised land, he would cleave the desert and lead the promised waters to them.

The bedfellows politics made are never strange. It only seems that way to those who have not watched the courtship.

Tyrants tyrannize no doubt thanks to a host of little tyrants, who are tyrannized and no doubt tyrannize in turn.

The American woman is the most intelligent woman in the world today - the only one that always knows what she wants, and therefore always gets it. Hasn't she proved it by making her husband in his role as slave-banker look almost ridiculous in the eyes of the whole world? Not only has she intelligence but a wonderful beauty of line is hers, possessed by no other woman of any race at the present time.

It is not simply to show power...that a man...throws coppers into the sea...In doing this he is also sacrificing to the gods and spirits...

I wished to see storms only on those coasts where they raged with most violence...

It is grief that develops the powers of the mind.

Do you suppose that it is within your power to insult me? You evidently are not aware to whom you are speaking? Do you imagine that the envenomed spittle of five hundred little gentlemen of your type, heaped one upon another, would succeed in slobbering so much as the tips of my august toes?

Quartering the topmost branches of one of the tall trees, an invisible bird was striving to make the day seem shorter, exploring with a long-drawn note the solitude that pressed it on every side, but it received at once so unanimous an answer, so powerful a repercussion of silence and of immobility, that one felt it had arrested for all eternity the moment which it had been trying to make pass more quickly.

Every woman feels that the greater her power over a man, the more impossible it is to leave him except by sudden flight: a fugitive precisely because a queen.

The social leaders who refuse to allow politics into society are as foreseeing as the soldiers who refuse to allow politics to permeate the army. Society is like the sexual appetite; one does not know at what forms of perversion it may not arrive, once we have allowed our choice to be dictated by aesthetic considerations.

You're as strong as the Pont Neuf. You'll live to bury us all!