Quotes About Power

You aren't the kind of guy who takes the law into his own hands. You left the law in other hands and it screwed you over pretty badly.

I merely observe that all living things are manipulated. As long as there is a will, it is bent and twisted constantly. Only the dead are allowed the luxury of freedom, and then only because they want nothing, and therefore can't be thwarted.

There are times when the world is rearranging itself, and at times like that, the right words can change the world.

A policeman's job is only easy in a police state.

Did you ever stop to think why cops are always famous for being dumb? Simple. Because they don't have to be anything else.

A certain great and powerful king once asked a poet: "What can I give you of all that I have?" He wisely replied, "Anything sir… except your secret."

Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.

Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.

There still remains only God to protect man against man. Either we will serve him in spirit and in truth or we shall enslave ourselves ceaselessly, more and more, to the monstrous idol that we have made with our own hands to our own image and likeness. Etienne Gilson, 20th century

It is no great feat to burn a little man. It is a great achievement to persuade him. ERASMUS, LETTER

There are no foolproof methods of persuasion, and those that come closest are coercive and dangerous because they override the will rather than convince the mind.

It is heaven that rules.

Thus a good man, though a slave, is free; but a wicked man, though a king, is a slave. For he serves, not one man alone, but, what is worse, as many masters as he has vices. ST. AUGUSTINE, CITY OF GOD

Truth is dead, and everything is relative at best and at worst a matter of the will to power. Nothing is what it appears to be. If truth was once the stated goal of intellectuals, it is now easy to read between their scholarly lines and see the petty egos and the dirty ambitions behind the lofty aspirations for truth. Truth is finally undecidable, as the postmodern philosophers express it. At best, truth is simply the compliment you pay to sentences that you happen to agree with.

In his famous novel 1984, O'Brien states frankly, "The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. . . . The object of power is power.

If Sparta and Rome perished," Rousseau wrote, "what state can hope to endure for ever?

God is the ultimate source of all power. All human power is therefore derived, limited, unstable and transient.

America has been hit by Allah at its most vulnerable point, destroying, thank God, its most prestigious buildings.

Bush the father did well in placing his sons as governors and did not forget to pass on the expertise in fraud from the leaders of the region to Florida to use it in critical moments.

America is a great power possessed of tremendous military might and a wide-ranging economy, but all this is built on an unstable foundation which can be targeted, with special attention to its obvious weak spots. If America is hit in one hundredth of these weak spots, God willing, it will stumble, wither away and relinquish world leadership.

What frightened me was the logic of the world; in it lay the foretaste of something incalculably powerful. Its mechanism was incomprehensible, and I could not possibly remain closeted in that windowless, bone-chilling room. Though outside lay the sea of irrationality, it was far more agreeable to swim in its waters until presently I drowned.

Human beings never submit to human beings

But there is no limit to a proud and beautiful maiden's capacity for cruelty.

La sociedad. (...) una lucha entre individuos. Y una lucha en que el ganarla lo supone todo. El ser humano no obedece a nadie.