Quotes About Power

The truth is everything in the end. It is the greatest power in the world to make all people equal. If everyone knows what the truth is, no one can use lies to separate those people and turn them against one another.

La stabilità del potere spegne le speranze di quanti non l'hanno e che potrebbero ottenerlo solo per un mutamento di governo, perché è l'instabilità ad assicurare i rivolgimenti della fortuna di cui quasi tutti hanno bisogno per migliorare la propria condizione.

Penn cautiously reached out and touched the dragon's scales. She had expected them to be hot but they were curiously cool. But he was real. He was an actual, live dragon and right in this very moment she could feel his leathery scales under her hand and the power of twin hearts beating in his chest. Penn felt something in her mind slipping – adjusting and rearranging to make room for the previously impossible. The Wintrish Girl

as the AI researcher Pedro Domingos so memorably put it, "People worry that computers will get too smart and take over the world, but the real problem is that they're too stupid and they've already taken over the world."21

Two nurses with scissors could make a man naked in eleven seconds.

Rohan, if being a hero is having the courage to resist using power arbitrarily, then you are a hero, beloved.

Leaving the appointment as Lord Limner to your grandfather's brother? Come, Zaragosa, why would a family of such power as you describe willingly step away from Court? It makes no sense.

With the next diarmadhi, he'd wait to inspect and question before ordering the execution.

And then their voices stopped and their souls stood still and they ceased being who they had been. Because who they were had always been determined by him.

The gods do make playthings of us ... but it is we mortals who provide them with the tools.

Everything is evil that humans can't control or conquer

Imagine who she would be if we unleashed her onto the world. I think she would rip the breath from all of us.

I think that we vote, not to get the best party in, but to keep the worst party out.

Men don't rape women because their women are ugly," cousin Jostien said, but there was a protest at his words. "That's what my fa said! He says that inside their hearts and spirits they are nothing but little men who need to feel powerful.

Those full of fear were the most dangerous of people.

If there was one weapon he had against these savages, it was not acknowledging their existence.

His seed will issue kings, but he will never reign For she would be Queen of Lumatere. But he would be king to her.

Do you want to know something about tyrants? When faced with death, they weep and they beg just like the rest of us.

See them together and you will feel a force that will take your breath away.

Someone had to be blamed. Someone had to die. (...) What you can't understand, you destroy.

Truth is dangerous.

Oh, the way that word is thrown around!" she said. "Everything is evil that humans can't control or conquer.

They separate us into groups. The Ringleaders and the Others. I belong to the Ringleaders because my weak, pathetic, traitorous, fundamentally base peers point to me when someone asks them who is in charge.

It's all rather political, mourning is.