Quotes About Power

I say to myself: "Who are you to measure infinite power?

I wish I had been born a storm. No heart, no tears, just a terrible gale'd been good.

There seems to be something in humanity which will not bow meekly to the insolence of power.

It posed the question posed by all such stone piles.: how had puny men moved stones so big? And, like all such stone piles, it answered the question itself. Dumb terror had moved those stones so big

Science devises ever bloodier means of war until humanity's powers of destruction overcome our powers of creation and our civilisation drives itself to extinction.

The Nuclear Industry is conducting a war against humanity.

A realistic recognition of the human condition is that it is corrupt beyond belief. What do you suppose would happen if the police all took a week off?

The strong conquer the weak. The weak serve the strong and hope to become strong so they can conquer others who are weaker.

The ultimate priority of humanity should not be to savour the power given to us, but rather to account for the according responsibility.

Humanity is filled with beautiful and positive and powerful people who care. I'm so glad we have people like Bill Gates and Warren Buffett in the world.

We must dilute and disperse all forms of concentrated power that refuse to be accountable to majority wishes.

In America, anyone can become president. That's the problem.

The lack of money is the root of all evil.

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl

The IRS! They're like the Mafia, they can take anything they want!

Prison is like high school with knives.

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor.

I do not know if all cops are poets, but I know that all cops carry guns with triggers.

But you shall not escape my iambics.

Every law is an infraction of liberty.

The Devil fears the word of God, He can't bite it; it breaks his teeth.

Librarians are the secret masters of the world. They control information. Don't ever piss one off.