Quotes About Power

The more exaggerated the musculature, the more it had to explain and justify itself in mounds of dead bodies.

The triumph of persuasion over force is the sign of a civilized society.

I am fond of the sound of horses in the night. The lifting of feet. Stamping. The clicking of their iron shoes against rock. They mouth one anothers withers and rear and squeal and whirl and shuffle and cough and stand and snort. There is the combined rumblings of each individual gut. They sound larger than they are. The air tastes of horses, ripples as though come alive with their good-hearted strength and stamina.

Nations, empires and movements boom or collapse according to greater forces than the personal traits of their leaders.

The machine enslaves, the hand sets free.

In capitalist economies that require continuous increase in consumption, voluntary poverty constitutes a threat to power. What keeps the gears spinning is income that is both taxable and disposable.

All great things come from love, don't they?" "I guess they do," Anna said, and looked away. "The worst things, too.

You see, Vorarbeiter, in the game of life, it is always preferable to be a man of the shadows, and even the darkness, if necessary. In this way, you run things, but you are never, ever seen. You are like a . . . phantom of the opera.

To the end of homicidal dictators with weird black bangs and puny square mustaches!" The

If you stay too close to someone like Hitler, you are going to burn someday.

You see, Vorarbeiter, in the game of life, it is always preferable to be a man of the shadows, and even the darkness, if necessary. In this way, you run things, but you are never, ever seen.

Putting your boot on another man's head and stealing him blind, until someone with a bigger boot comes along to kick you out of the way?

power was bleeding from Benito Mussolini's grasp like joy from a young widowed heart.

For what? Putting your boot on another man's head and stealing him blind, until someone with a bigger boot comes along to kick you out of the way?

As far as Pino was concerned, wars were about murder and thievery. One army killed to steal the hill; then another killed to steal it back.

We have ears everywhere, you know, Father. The Gestapo is like God. We hear all things.

First the Communists killed all the smart people who made things work in the cities. And now they want to make doing good at anything at all a punishable crime! What has happened to the world? How did we end up in an asylum?

Trust in no power but your own, Emil. If you want to be saved, save yourself.

brows, a flattened nose, and massive arms and shoulders.

Francis also did everything in his power to get his people to stay at the bottom or at the edge and never at the top. He didn't even want his friars to be priests/clergy. He said, "You can't preach the gospel if you're part of the structures of power.

Deputy Inspector-General Atwal's body, riddled with bullets, lay in the main entrance to the Sikhs' most sacred shrine for more than two hours before the District Commissioner could persuade the Temple authorities to hand it over.

There is therefore considerable evidence to suggest that Bhindranwale's release was ordered by the Home Minister. He certainly still enjoyed Zail Singh's patronage.

The Akali Dai's decision to adopt Bhindranwale was rank political opportunism.

The decision to release Bhindranwale was taken by the government.