Quotes About Power

Super gun,' can you imagine?" Karl Walter would muse more than two decades later. Shaking his head, he chuckled. "You can't buy that kind of attention, not for $50 million, not for $100 million.

I don't get superheroes," she says, "if you could see through everything you'd see nothing at all.

And for many, politics has become gestural: it is about refusing to engage with power on power's own terms; about action, not ideas; about the symbolic control of territory to create islands of utopia.

Turns out that capitalism is unkillable because it kills every other system first.

Don't let anyone tell you that the truth can't disappear. If I believe in anything, rather than God, is that I am part of something that goes all the way back to Antigone, and that whatever speaks the truth of our hearts can only make us stronger. Can only give us the power to counter the hate and bigotry and heal this addled world. Just remember: You are not alone.

We queers of Revelation hill...died of the greed of power, because we were expendable. If you mean to visit any of us, it had better be to make you strong to fight that power. Take your languor and easy tears somewhere else. Above all, don't pretty us up. Tell yourself: None of this ever had to happen. And then go make it stop, with whatever breath you have left. Grief is a sword, or it is nothing.

When you know who you are, it's harder for people to fuck with you. Hollywood is dangerous because the great hobby they have in that town is fucking with other people. Building you up, knocking you down, until finally you are destroyed. They all want to create you and mold you.

only as much power over us as we willingly give him or her.

Lacking sufficient courage ourselves, we borrow courage from courageous people and from our Higher Power, and it works.

She insists on negotiating, and she's not in a position to negotiate.

Resentments contain a great deal of energy—enough to lead to war, murder and suicide.

The more you try to control another person, the more you are under that person's control." If how you feel or what you do next depends on what the person you are trying to control does or does not do next, then you are under that person's control.

España no experimentó una clásica revolución burguesa en la que se rompieran las estructuras del Antiguo Régimen. El poder de la monarquía, de la nobleza terrateniente y de la Iglesia seguían más o menos intactos bien entrado el siglo XX.

To the memory of the glorious Ninety-two: members of the Honorable House of Representatives of the Massachusetts Bay who, undaunted by the insolent menaces of villains in power, from a strict regard to conscience and the liberties of their constituents on the 30th of June 1768 voted not to rescind.

The power of impulses which haunt our phantasies, of imaginary modes of being which ignite the poetic word, and of the all-embracing, that most powerful something which menaces us so long as we feel unloved, in all these registers and perhaps in others as well, the dialectic of power and form takes place, which insures that language only captures the foam on the surface of life.

Oh my God. I love rich people. And royalty are the best because they're rich people who can't be fires.

Louis could never shake the suspicion that some people, whether consciously or not, called the storm to themselves.

And the biggest, coldest power play of all in Obamacare came at the expense of the elderly.

I have never seen opponents so silent about their record, and so desperate to keep their power.

A woman's thoughts are always weapons. And all men are monsters in their hearts.

Tests make us stronger, and strength is power, and power is the point. We must pass all the tests we face.

It is unforgiving of weakness

Vader made most of the naval officers he encountered uncomfortable

Underlings should always be uncomfortable in the presence of their superiors