Quotes About Power

When most dullards hear the words 'the theater,' they envision a twelve-screen multiplex where disaster porn entertains the culturally witless for 90 minutes at a time. Pfaugh. The word 'theater' has grandeur. Power. Back to its ancient Grecian origins, it means 'the seeing place.' A stage upon which actors and actresses use fiction to show us truths.

I'm a master of story. Almost a living fiction myself, so resilient am I! Spider-Man beats me down, I rise! Daredevil imprisons me, I escape! That's because stories have power! He who controls the narrative controls the audience, and you're all the audience, every one of you. As they say, the world's a stage...

Puedes cambiar la vida de una persona sin saberlo siquiera

know that for centuries Catholic priests were allowed to be married? It was the First Lateran Council that changed that in the twelfth century. When there was pushback from the clergy, the Vatican began arresting and killing the wives. Some were even sold into slavery. To avoid this happening to their loved ones, the priests accepted the new rules. In a gracious touch, the surviving wives were allowed to be considered widows by the pope rather than divorcées.

What can an ex-President of the United States do except get drunk?" (There are other versions of the line that are quite similar.)

A young man named for a god of fucking rode his palomino next to my dun.

Her smile, I'm sure, burnt Rome to the ground.

When you give everyone a voice and give people power, the system usually ends up in a really good place. So, what we view our role as, is giving people that power.

By giving people the power to share, we're making the world more transparent.

Ein Reich ohne Bücher, ist ein verlorenes Reich.

He was abusing the imbeciles' licence to do the unthinkable.

Some say history is made by the winners. Sometimes, it's rewritten by an author.

Army? I don't need an army when I've got my ax!

Man durfte dem Bild nicht anmerken, daß es nicht mehr in Ordnung war, und man mußte immer noch ein wenig Glanz darauf legen. Je mehr sie selbst an Substanz verlor, desto strahlender, dichter und übermächtiger mußte ihr Bild werden.

Courage and grace is a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is the bullring.

The weak are more likely to make the strong weak than the strong are likely to make the weak strong.

did i think i was god that i had to lie and take it did i think then i was a mountain or a hill or a ridge and who told me that and who decided stones had no rights for stones can waste away from being denied from being abused and who decided who is the ploughed and who ploughs and why did i not get up and why not go away and what would have happened if i had resisted..

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A man has to be Joe McCarthy to be called ruthless. All a woman has to do is put you on hold.

You are very attractive, but the coat you're wearing makes me think you are either a very rich woman or a very rich man's mistress.

With women, I've got a long bamboo pole with a leather loop on the end. I slip the loop around their necks so they can't get away or come too close. Like catching snakes.

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

You think as they do that suffering from cruelty or escaping it is a matter of choice or means, when it is matter of power.

Do you know what we mean by Cold War? —War don't have no temperature.