Quotes About Power

We beat them with stones at first, and they had guns. Our people had to go and get guns. Wouldn't they have been right stupid people to stand there? Our people got shotguns at first and then got better weapons. And then the British, who were supposed to protect us, came in and raided our homes. What way could you fight? So you went down and you blew them up.

Inside Purdue Frederick, power was determined entirely by one's relationship to the family.

Conventional wisdom had it that every handler wants a highly placed source.

hate to say this but you could become the Pablo Escobar of the new millennium.

Have the military wing create as much discontent and deprivation as possible, the more unemployment the better. Then have your political wing feed off the people's discontent.

a posture of heavy-lies-the-crown fatigue.

In the twentieth century, power announced itself. In the twenty-first, the surest way to spot real power is by its understatement.

Think of it as the dangle: a wealthy patron can often enjoy favor and influence with a hard-up institution that are far out of proportion to any gifts that have actually been made, because the canny donor learns to dangle the possibility of future gifts, and that is a possibility that the museum or university cannot afford to overlook. When the dangle is executed correctly, there is almost nothing that the institution will not do to keep the donor (or even the prospective donor) happy.

GOD MADE THE CATHOLICS, BUT THE ARMALITE MADE THEM EQUAL.

One unadvertised hazard in the life of a plutocrat is that the people around you can be prone to yes-man sycophancy.

One unionist politician likened this custody arrangement to keeping 'a python in a paper bag'.

Once those figures get out, they'll murder these fellows," one senator exclaimed, referring to Welch and Martí-Ibáñez.

Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.

The truth is that the world is full of dragons, and none of us are as powerful or cool as we'd like to be. And that sucks. But when you're confronted with that fact, you can either crawl into a hole and quit, or you can get out there, take off your shoes, and Bilbo it up.

Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.

You are an educated man. You know there are no such things as demons." Bast smiled a terrible smile. "There is only my kind." Bast leaned closer still, Chronicler smelled flowers on his breath. "You are not wise enough to fear me as I should be feared. You do not know the first note of the music that moves me.

You are not wise enough to fear me as I should be feared.

On his first hand he wore rings of stone, Iron, Amber, Wood and Bone. There were rings unseen on his second hand, One blood in a flowing band, One was air all whisper thin, And the ring of ice had a flaw within. Full faintly shone the ring of flame, And the final ring was without name.

I'll string a fiddle with your guts and make you play it while I dance.

Auri stood, and in the circle of her golden hair she grinned and brought the weight of her desire down full upon the world. And all things shook. And all things knew her will. And all things bent to please her.

If power is the only important thing, then Frodo loses against Sauron. Hell, if power's the only important thing then Gandalf loses against Sauron. If magic is the deciding factor of a fight, then four plucky kids from England get their asses turned to stone by the White Which.

I was one of those. I meddled with dark powers. I summoned demons. I ate the entire little cheese, including the rind.

Good lord woman. If i had tits like yours I'd own half the world by now.

Es una palabra. Las palabras son pálidas sombras de nombres olvidados. Los nombres tienen poder, y las palabras también. Las palabras pueden hacer prender el fuego en la mente de los hombres. Las palabras pueden arrancarles lágrimas a los corazones más duros. Existen diez palabras que minarán la más poderosa voluntad de un hombre. Pero una palabra no es más que la representación de un fuego. Un nombre es el fuego en sí.