Quotes About Power

Because I'm not blind to how Harry works, you know," she said. "A bully with charisma and top marks is still a bully." She sighed, annoyed. "He'll probably end up Prime Minister one day. God help us all.

A knife is only as good as the one who wields it.

Cuz that's it - That's the nasty, nasty secret of war - When yer winning - When yer winning, it's effing thrilling -

As long as I hold it as long as I use it, the knife lives, lives in order to take life, but it has to be commanded, it has to have me to tell it to kill, and it wants to, it wants to plunge and thrust and cut and stab and gouge, but I have to want it to as well, my will has to join with its will. I'm the one who allows it and I'm the one responsible.

And what exactly do you think this proves?" he spits. "You've got power, but you don't know what to do with it." VIOLA "Looks like I'm doing fine," I say.

Stories are the wildest things of all, the monster rumbled. Stories chase and bite and hunt. That's what teachers always say, Conor said. No one believes them either.

And I know it - I know it in my heart - Right now - Todd Hewitt - There's nothing we can't do together -

Will the world end in darkness because it is foretold? Or because there will be those who believe it so strongly they will make it so?

He was the thing the world had suffered from most in her four billion years of existence: a stupid man with power.

Her love for me made me as tall as the mountains

I have two maxims that I believe, dear girl. One, if you can control yourself, you can control others. Two, if you can control information, you can control others.

Is this what war is? Is this what men want so much? Is this sposed to make them men?

Now that, said the monster, is how destruction is properly done.

A bully with charisma and top marks is still a bully. He'll probably end up Prime Minister one day. God help us all.

What else do men think about except sex and enemies?

Superior numbers versus superior firepower. A recipe for unending slaughter.

Me and Todd? Together against the Mayor?" She smiles. "He doesn't stand a chance.

And there. The power of a word. The power of one word. That's where it all changes.

The purpose of a volcano is to die,' she says. 'Is this not what you strive for?' 'The purpose of a volcano is to die, my lady,' says the volcano, 'but as angrily as possible.

They want us a bit dumb and a bit afraid. Which for the most part, I think we are.

You imagine the devil, you make the devil.

Close enough so I can see the smile, a smile I know full well, a smile that clubs, a smile that beats, a smile that dominates.

There's only one room on this planet for one side to be dominant, Todd.

But I will say also on yer first day that the attractiveness of power is something you should learn about before you get too much older, it's the thing that separates men from boys, tho not in the way most men think.