Quotes About Power

The company is like an evil vending machine, you put money in and it does what you want, unless somebody else puts more money in and tells it to stop.

I'm letting you see all this because I want you to know what I am and what I can do. I want you to know who targetControlSystem is fucking with right now. I want you to know if you help me, I'll help you , and that you can trust me. Now here's the code to disable your governor module.

The core cutter had powered up and accessed my feed to deliver a canned warning and a handy set of directions. Why yes, I did want to disengage the safety protocols, thanks for asking.

You forgot what I am.' Ramad huffed a breath that was almost a laugh. 'An immortal demon prince.' 'No,' Kai said pointedly. 'Bashasa's immortal demon prince.

I'm using my own pain." Ziede's eyes narrowed. "It's not nearly as likely to destroy your consciousness and enslave you to the Hierarch's Well, but it's hardly an inexhaustible source." Kai huffed a laugh, though it wasn't funny. "Isn't it?" Ziede bit her lip and he could see she knew he was right. "You're taking all the fun out of killing a Hierarch's High Expositor and stealing his power, Kai.

Oh, don't make me fight you with words, cousin. It will get out of hand, as once started I lose the will to stop.

I was not in control of this situation and I could see at least ten instances now where I'd made wrong decisions and being in control of the situation was really important because otherwise it was in control of me and that felt like a short step to being back in the company's control.

Indah's gaze wasn't exactly skeptical. "What controlled circumstances?" I said, "Isolated work installations." Her expression turned even more grim. "Corporate slave labor camps." I said, "Yes, but if we call them that, Marketing and Branding gets angry and we get a power surge through our brains that fries little pieces of our neural tissue.

The lesson was: if you're going to fuck with something bigger and meaner than you, use a quick targeted attack and then run away really fast.

There are great mysteries in this world that only God understands. But this I do understand. No mistake you may have ever made is bigger than God's power to fix it.

They believed that challenging entrenched authority entailed a concerted attempt to alter the institutions and policy-making apparatus that had been usurped by a self-serving power elite;

Sex has become much more competitive, with the girls becoming sort of predators as well. It's ferocious.

Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun.

The arms race is a race between nuclear weapons and ourselves.

I can imagine in a century or two that rule by women will be seen as a better bet than rule by men. What's wrong with men is that they tend to look for the violent solution. Women don't.

Weapons are like money; no one knows the meaning of enough.

Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy.

Sometimes I feel that life is passing me by, not slowly either, but with ropes of steam and spark-spattered wheels and a hoarse roar of power or terror. It's passing, yet I'm the one who's doing all the moving.

Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy.

Terrorism is the war of the weak and war is the terrorism of the strong.

Sinful attempts to control may come from a lust for power or from unsuccessful attempts to correct problem situations. Underneath sinful attempts to control or manipulate is the deadliest sin of all: pride. It is pride that puts self, self's interests, desires, plans, and ideas first. It is often the self-righteous pride of thinking that self knows what is best.

Whoever it was that first realized that a woman wronged is a dangerous animal, and I suspect he was a Neolithic half-ape, was immeasurably correct.

The great man, whether we comprehend him in the most intense activity of his work or in the restful equipoise of his forces, is powerful, involuntarily and composedly powerful, but he is not avid for power. What he is avid for is the realization of what he has in mind, the incarnation of the spirit.

Greatness by nature includes a power, but not a will to power.