Quotes About Power

We have a powerful potential in out youth, and we must have the courage to change old ideas and practices so that we may direct their power toward good ends.

One man got so mean and nasty whenever he couldn't play with Maureen's titties that he soiled himself on purpose so she would have to clean his butt and the rest of his private parts. Each time she had to do that, he displayed an erection that would put a horny frat boy to shame.

The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time.

The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.

eight Muscovite Princes from Daniel (1260) to the death of Vasili (1462),

The Kremlin was built (1300)—not as we see it now.

The Holy Roman Empire was now the German Empire. And,

It was the Novgorodians who invited the Norse Princes to come and rule the land; and it was the Novgorodians who were their least submissive subjects.

It will be observed that when there were not enough thrones to go around, he simply created a kingdom! Certainly, with all his faults, no one can accuse him of not having provided well for his family!

Money buys many things... The best of which is freedom.

It is not the bloodletting that calls down power. It is the consenting.

Men would be as gods, if they had foreknowledge.

I was a king and a king's heir and now I am a slave.

The world had broken; the pieces lay like shattered gold, spoil for the strongest.

What is democracy, Lysis?"—"It is what it says, the rule of the people. It is as good as the people are, or as bad.

When I rode on to meet the army, I learned a thing one never forgets after: how much easier it is to move the many than the few.

There are always men who take their own measure against greatness, and hate it not for what it is, but for what they are. They can envy even the dead. So much Alexander saw. He did not understand, since it was not in him, the power such men have to rouse in others the sleeping envy they once had a decent shame of; to turn respect for excellence into hate. Nor did Kallisthenes understand it in himself. Vanity begets it, vanity covers it up.

Certainly, I thought, Dion means to have his way. But I suppose that's what makes a king.

The gods, in kindness to mankind, have put in most men's hearts the wish to be loved and honored, even when they greatly wish for power. Power is the test. Some, once they have it, are content to buy the show of liking, and punish those who withhold it; then you have a despot. But some keep a true eye for how they seem to others, and care about it, which holds them back from much mischief.

Digamos entonces que el alma se asemeja al poder conjunto de un tronco de corceles alados y un auriga. Pues bien, los caballos y los cocheros de los dioses son del mismo genio y de la misma casta, pero los de los hombres son distintos [...]

I stretched out my hand to Poseidon, but he sent no sign. He was away perhaps, shaking the earth somewhere. All about us I felt another power, dark, past man's thoughts, giver of desolation or of joy, she who can cherish or cast away but abides no question.

She looked up at the whirling effulgent cloud, and thought, I brought down the fire from heaven; I have lived with glory. A thunderbolt struck from the sky and all was gone.

What is democracy? It is what it says, the rule of the people. It is as good as the people are, or as bad.

It is something, I thought, when a king can put a courtesan to the blush.