Quotes About Power

Los tiranos y los déspotas suelen tener la costumbre de torturar, invadir y asesinar. Hay

You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.

Our mathematics is the symbolic counterpart of the universe we perceive, and its power has been continuously enhanced by human exploration.

I'll make him an offer he can't refuse.

Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.

I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse.

I'll make him an offer he can't refuse.

The lawyer with the briefcase can steal more money than the man with the gun.

I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse.

Behind every successful fortune there is a crime.

Lawyers can steal more money with a briefcase than a thousand men with guns and masks.

Power isn't everything ...its the only thing.

History is written by the winners. The books say the Indians were bad guys and the whites just needed a little land. It's like, Excuse me, let me take your car. I'm discovering it. I'm putting my flag on your windshield.

Oh, I should like to ride the seas, A roaring buccaneer; A cutlass banging at my knees, A dirk behind my ear. And when my captives' chains would clank I'd howl with glee and drink, And then fling out the quivering plank And watch the beggars sink. I'd like to straddle gory decks, And dig in laden sands, And know the feel of throbbing necks Between my knotted hands. Oh, I should like to strut and curse Among my blackguard crew....

This book exposes the ways in which food companies use political processes—entirely conventional and nearly always legal—to obtain government and professional support for the sale of their products. Its twofold purpose is to illuminate the extent to which the food industry determines what people eat and to generate much wider discussion of the food industry's marketing methods and use of the political system.

You can make those promises with just as much passion the second time around. Such is the regenerative power of the human heart.

Love is the real power. It's the energy that cherishes. The more you work with that energy, the more you will see how people respond naturally to it, and the more you will want to use it. It brings out your creativity, and helps everyone around you flower. Your children, the people you work with--everyone blooms.

When the power comes from within us and we claim it as our own, then we no longer have to affirm ourselves by dominating others. The irony is that we are actually afraid of our own power.

Old Mother God, Old Father God— they keep us trapped. And we do give up. We pull the covers over our head, and go back to sleep. Only to dream of old dragons, old alligators, old crocodiles drinking our blood. To dream of cold-eyed lawmakers saying, This is the way it's always been done. It works. It will stay this way. And you will obey.

The Crone has been missing from our culture for so long that many women, particularly young girls, know nothing of her tutelage. Young girls in our society are not initiated by older women into womanhood with its accompanying dignity and power. Without the Crone, the task of belonging to oneself, of being a whole person, is virtually impossible.

Recognizing the difference between power and love is difficult if we were raised in a home where power was disguised as love.

Men destroy only what they fear.

For this is the great secret, which was known to all educated men in our day: that by what men think, we create the world around us, daily new.

Anyone who intrigues for power, deserves to get it!