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Quotes About Power

Im afraid of three things: Women, snakes, and the police. They all have the ability to hurt me and make it look like it was my fault.
~ Unknown
Fearing a man is a joke. If he can breathe, then he can choke.
~ Unknown
I believe there is something out there watching over us. Unfortunately, it's the government.
~ Woody Allen
When the powerful horses went out, they were straining to go throughout the earth. And he said, "Go throughout the earth!" So they went throughout the earth.
~ Unknown
Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.
~ Unknown
Give me a woman who loves beer and I will conquer the world.
~ Unknown
Hit the ball over the fence and you can take your time going around the bases.
~ Mickey Mantle
Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.
~ Yul Brynner
It doesn't matter if you're black or white... the only color that really matters is green.
~ Unknown
A strong man doesn't have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn't match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world.
~ Marilyn Monroe
If a star or studio chief or any other great movie personages find themselves sitting among a lot of nobodies, they get frightened - as if somebody was trying to demote them.
~ Marilyn Monroe
I'm for the individual as opposed to the corporation. The way it is the individual is the underdog, and with all the things a corporation has going for them the individual comes out banged on her head. The artist is nothing. It's really tragic.
~ Marilyn Monroe
Most men judge your importance in their lives by how much you can hurt them.
~ Marilyn Monroe
The might of Rome Roman power was based on a well-disciplined, well-equipped army. A Roman legion was composed of 60 centuries, and each century was made up of 100 men. (After 43 AD, a century was only 80 soldiers.) This statue shows how a soldier dressed. On the march, he carried equipment weighing 194 pounds (probably more than his own weight), including food rations for three days.
~ Unknown
born to avenge my sex and dominate yours
~ Marilyn Yalom
D?-i societ??ii aripi ?i le va arde pe rug.
~ Unknown
Am închis citatul De câte ori închid citatul, Simt în mine Nu ?tiu ce secret? jubila?ie De poli?ist: L-am închis ?i pe-?sta, Mama lui de porc!
~ Unknown
I realise the power of art that does not hang on the walls of galleries.
~ Marina Abramovic
Da, sve otkako je ?ovjek prvi put digao glavu iznad ulaza u špilju da pogleda zvijezde na nebu i pomislio kako bi bilo lijepo imati jednu takvu zvijezdu samo za sebe, sanjao je o tome da drugi rade za njega i da on za to pla?a što je manje mogu?e.
~ Marina Lewycka
No, it's the same people who are always in power, Vera. Sometimes they call themselves communists, sometimes capitalists, sometimes devoutly religious—whatever they need to be to hang on to power. The former communists in Russia are the same people who own all the industries now. They're the real rip-off merchants. But the professional middle classes, people like Valentina's husband, have been hardest hit.
~ Marina Lewycka
Picasso] loved...women for the sexual, carnivorous impulses they aroused in him. Mixing blood and sperm, he exalted women in his paintings, imposed his violence on them, and sentenced them to death once he felt their mystery had been discharged and the sexual power they instilled in him had dulled... Women were his prey. He was the Minotaur. These were bloody, indecent bullfights from which he always emerged the dazzling victor.
~ Unknown
El lenguaje no solo describe la realidad, sino que además es capaz de crearla. Nuestra forma de hablarnos a nosotros mismos afecta tremendamente a nuestra manera de relacionarnos con el mundo.
~ Unknown
Los odios vivifican y estimulan solo si es uno quien los gobierna; destruyen y desajustan cuando son ellos los que dominan.
~ Mario Benedetti
En política latinoamericana la cosa no es poder ni querer sino joder.
~ Mario Benedetti