Quotes About Power

Where we are from... [s]tories are factual. If a farmer is declared a music virtuoso by the state, everyone had better start calling him maestro. And secretly, he'd be wise to start practicing the piano. For us, the story is more important than the person. If a man and his story are in conflict, it is the man who must change.

I]n communism, you'd threaten a dog into compliance, while in capitalism, obedience is obtained through bribes.

I feel like a millionaire on the back of an armored jet-ski my samurai girlfriend who loves me is charging at a cartel speedboat to win a game of chicken. Isn't this the day's best part? You don't even have to remember to enjoy it. It enjoys you into itself.

Our plastic muskets, though powderless, will frontload, and our coup will not be bloodless, nor will the blood be lambly. It will stain the lion's den whose bars though invisible are verily there as well roll along, doo-da doo-da and a thousand lonely dirges.

Easy as a child breathes a wish at a dandelion...is exactly how hard it would be for me to tear your limbs from their sockets.

All the word's indeed a page and we must loudly tear it.

Being humiliated only makes it easier to restrain you. And being restrained makes it possible to torture you, for the unrestrained cannot be tortured; the unrestrained can only be fought. So to be restrained is to be unable to fight, and to be humiliated is to be readied for torture. To know you have been readied for torture is to await torture. And to await torture is, itself, torture.

I think you can be an enemy of Saddam Hussein even if Donald Rumsfeld is also an enemy of Saddam Hussein.

I am the master! I stretch forth my hands, even to the skies! I lay my hands upon the stars, as on the crystal wheels of the harmonica. Now fast, now slow, as my soul wills, I turn the stars. I weave them into rainbows, harmonies. I feel immortality! I create immortality!

Ludzie! ka?dy z was móg?by, samotny, wi?ziony, My?l? i wiar? zwala? i pod?wiga? trony.

Spotykam ludzi – z rozros?ymi barki, Z piersi? szerok?, z oty?ymi karki; Jako zwierz?ta i drzewa pó?nocy, Pe?ni czerstwo?ci i zdrowia, i mocy. Lecz twarz ka?dego jest jak ich kraina, Pusta, otwarta i dzika równina;(...).

Good boozers make good bruisers.

Jedno?ci? silni, rozumni sza?em

t's [King James Bible] subject is majesty, not tyranny, and it's political purpose was unifying and enfolding, to elide the kingliness of God with the godliness of kings, to make royal power and divine glory into one invisible garment which could be wrapped around the nation as a whole.

And such too is the grandeur of the dooms/We have imagined for the mighty dead.

That's a nice sense of immunity from prosecution you got there," Alma told them. "Be a shame if something were to happen to it.

slaveowners and their allies in the United States tried to protect their country from the most democratic, egalitarian, and terrifying prospect of the Age of Revolution: a generalized slave rebellion.

The whole enterprise involved terror and violence.

known in the North as the "slave power." Slaveowners in the Deep South believed in the need for slavery and in their own benevolence as masters.

All it took was the officer's own silence and weight.

When it comes to expressions of violence, humans excel.

sexual violence and rape in our oldest texts. These include the rape of Hera, Antiope, Europa and Leda, all by Zeus; Persephone by Hades; Odysseus by Calypso;

America has a critical role to play as the most powerful member of the world community.

An America that inspires hope in its ideals must complement an America that inspires awe in its strength.