Quotes About Power

Taa will be dead, Mors will be disgraced, and we'll arrange for you to look the hero somehow. Moff Dray. Sounds good, no?" "I'll still be in your pocket," Belkor said. "But you'll be alive. And a Moff. That's better than the alternative." Belkor said nothing.

Vader made most of the naval officers he encountered uncomfortable. To them, he was a towering dark figure outside their chain of command who had emerged from nowhere and possessed powers they did not understand.

Alert your flight teams," he said to Luitt. "Be ready to scramble your V-wings." "What? Why?" Luitt asked, looking from Vader to the Emperor. "The shields are still up." "Likely not for much longer," Vader said. "Do as Lord Vader commands," said the Emperor, putting just enough power in his tone to quail everyone on the bridge.

Vader was not a man.

Greedy corporations sought profits above all else and a corrupt Senate did nothing to stop them

She could hear the slow, steady beat of Vader's respiration but could draw no breath herself.

In time, we'll tame them and they'll welcome their bondage. Many already do.

Want is not the point. I serve the Force. The Force is conflict. The Empire is conflict. The two are congruent.

For a moment, caught up in the aftereffects of his vision, Vader wondered what it would be like to face his Master in battle, to take his small, frail body in his hands, lift it from the ground, and…

Fear was a tool used by the strong to cow the weak.

Malgus knew it was folly. Empires and the men who ruled empires could not stay sharp when surrounded by comfort, by peace.

Underlings should always be uncomfortable in the presence of their superiors," said the Emperor. "Don't you agree?

Small sparks can start big fires.

The weak are found out and killed by the strong.

But sometimes the strong mistake their strength

their fear fed his anger.

We are, all of us, always being tested, my friend. Tests make us stronger, and strength is power, and power is the point. We must pass all the tests we face… Or die in the effort.

The permutations of English corruption in India were endless

It is said that he spoke the language of the greased palm, and this language is international.

As Napoleon later put it, when describing his feelings at this time: "I saw the way to achieve all my dreams. . . . I would found a religion, I saw myself marching on the way to Asia, mounted on an elephant, a turban on my head, and in my hand a new Koran that I would have composed to suit my needs. In my enterprises I would have combined the experiences of the two worlds, exploiting the realm of all history for my own profit."7

The extraterrestrials explained that they want to help us realize we are not alone, and that there is a better way of living and evolving that is sustainable. But before they give us the tools and technology to continue our evolution, they need to be assured that whatever they do for us will be for the benefit of ALL humanity. Not just those in power who will use it to further their own agendas.

White House reporter Sarah McClendon about why he didn't do something about UFO disclosure. Clinton replied, "Sarah, there's a government inside the government and I don't control it.

This "they win, the people lose" formula has become the one that has now set the world on its calamitous course.

February 17, 1950: "We shall have world government whether or not you like it – by conquest or consent.