Quotes About Power

We negotiated peace with them the first time, my girl, because we were in a position of strength. That's how wars work, that's how truces work. We show them we've got more power than they imagine and they're more willing to make peace.

She's always saying that being a leader is making the people you love hate you a little more each day." She catches my eye. "Which is something I believe, too." "So what happened?" I ask. "Why isn't she still in charge?" "She made a mistake," Corinne says primly. "People who didn't like her took advantage of it." "What kind of mistake?" Her permanent frown gets bigger. "She saved a life.

I look at the knife again, sitting there on the moss like a thing without properties, a thing made of metal as separate from a boy as can be, a thing which casts all blame from itself to the boy who uses it.

A monster, I think, remembering what Ben told me once. War makes monsters of men. "Wrong," says the Mayor. "It's war that makes us men in the first place. Until there's war, we are only children.

War makes monsters of men, you once said to me, Todd. Well, so does too much knowledge. Too much knowledge of your fellow man, too much knowledge of his weakness, his pathetic greed and vanity, and how laughably easy it is to control him.

Stories are wild creatures, the monster said. When you let them loose, who knows what havoc they might wreak?

Who am I? the monster repeated, still roaring. I am the spine that the mountains hang upon! I am the tears that the rivers cry! I am the lungs that breathe the wind! I am the wolf that kills the stag, the hawk that kills the mouse, the spider that kills the fly! I am the stag, the mouse and the fly that are eaten! I am the snake of the world devouring its tail! I am everything untamed and untameable!

You looked like a half-literate moron in that letter, like an anti-intellectual jackanapes trying to stampede his way into power with all the finesse of a lovestruck buffalo.

La destrucción es algo muy gratificante.

Histórias são criaturas selvagens', continuou o monstro. 'Quando você as liberta, como saber a devastação que elas podem causar?

Las historias son importantes [...]. Pueden ser más importantes que cualquier otra cosa. Si portan la verdad.

Las historias son lo mas salvaje de todo

Las historias son criaturas salvajes -dijo que monstruo-. Cuando las sueltas, ¿quién sabe los desastres que pueden causar?

I have had as many names as there are years to time itself! roared the monster. I am Herne the Hunter! I am Cernunnos! I am the eternal Green Man!

We'd all met in the office and told the vice principal—who, like all vice principals, is genetically Nazi—what we'd seen. He

Destruction is very satisfying

Credin?a reprezint? jum?tate din puterea de vindecare a unui om. Credin?a în leac, credin?a în viitorul care te a?teapt?.

When you predict the future, when you do so strongly and you cling to it, how much of the future do you then cause to happen?

I don't understand people who get power and then just give it up. Just say, 'Oh, what the fuck, I just don't want it anymore. I'm retiring.

Who am I? I am the spine that the mountains hang upon! I am the tears that the rivers cry! I am the lungs that breathe the wind! I am the wolf that kills the stag, the hawk that kills the mouse, the spider that kills the fly! I am the stag, the mouse and the fly that are eaten! I am the snake of the world devouring its tail! I am everything untamed and untameable!

The key is never sheer numbers. The key is the correct catalyst. A pebble can start a landslide and the boulders have no say in the matter as they tumble down the hill.

Forty-seven generations before, the King of the Southerners had stolen a rhinoceros out of the Northern King's private zoo. (—That's it? —Wars have started for less. —But that's stupid. —Precisely.)

I am opposed to authority, that egg of misery and oppression; I am opposed to it largely for what it does to those who exercise it.

No single individual did more to shape the character of medical advertising than the multi-talented Dr. Arthur Sackler." It was Arthur, the citation continued, who brought "the full power of advertising and promotion to pharmaceutical marketing.