Quotes About Power

The Bible angers and frustrates those who believe that the pursuit of a perfect society justifies the quest for absolute power.

In ten years they would be dead, deported or in leadership positions.

But sharing the wealth threatened power-hungry elites in every nation, and these reactionaries blocked society's natural progress toward humane socialism. Capitalist societies became fascist; socialist ones became communist.

Those who self-righteously value their own contradictions are mighty on this Earth.

A] competent magician should have the ability to stand still at a bus stop with closed eyes and have the entire universe disappear apart from a single blazing visualised sigil or muttered spell.

Self-Professed Black Magicians seem universally unable to fight, fuck, or even buy their way out of wet paper bags, despite phantasizing constantly about becoming powerful psychopaths.

There is no formal hierarchy in the chaos tradition of magic. There is a division of activity depending on ability as it develops.

Even a slight ability to change oneself is more valuable than any power over the external universe. Metamorphosis is an exercise in willed restructuring of the mind.

To some, the temporal triumph of the Christian community in the world is a sign of God's favor and the essential righteousness of the Christian position. The irony of the matter, though, is that whenever the Christian community gains worldly power, it nearly always looses its capacity to be the critic of the power and influence it so readily brokers.

We can all push the lever that moves the world, it is inside us, we just have to learn how to recognise it, how to use it, that is all we have to do.

If you ever thought you were too small to make a difference, you've never shared a bed with a mosquito.

Dieu et mon droit».

I've always shied away from conventional wisdom, though I know the power of it.

Los seres humanos nunca son libres de otras fuerzas que condicionan sus vidas. El problema de la libertad no es la elección entre tener un dueño o no tenerlo; es el problema de quién es ese dueño.

Music does not merely sound: It enchants. To listen to music is to give our souls to its power. We do not merely hear and feel but are held and possessed.

And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.

Cush was the father of Nimrod, who began to be a mighty one on the earth.

He was a mighty hunter before the LORD; so it is said, “Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before the LORD.”

And the LORD said, “If they have begun to do this as one people speaking the same language, then nothing they devise will be beyond them.

When Pharaohís officials saw Sarai, they commended her to him, and she was taken into the palace of Pharaoh.

In those days Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of Goiim

against Chedorlaomer king of Elam, Tidal king of Goiim, Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Ellasar—four kings against five.

And he slept with Hagar, and she conceived. But when Hagar realized that she was pregnant, she began to despise her mistress.

“Here,” said Abram, “your servant is in your hands. Do whatever you want with her.” Then Sarai treated Hagar so harshly that she fled from her.