Quotes About Power

The arms of pain crush time as they will

Do you hunger, Saint Merrin? Here, I give you both nectar and ambrosia, I give to you the daily bread of your God!" croaked the demon mockingly as Regan excreted diarrhetically. "For this is my body! Now consecrate that, Saint Merrin!

Regan relinchando; luego se animaba la escena, y la cama se agitaba, era sacudida violentamente de un lado a otro, mientras Chris observaba, impotente, que su hija ponía los ojos en blanco y emitía un penetrante aullido de terror, que emergía de la base de su columna retorcida. Regan se arqueó y cayó inconsciente. Algo atroz abandonó la habitación.

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Unlimited Power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it.

Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it; and this I know, my lords, that where laws end, tyranny begins.

There is something behind the throne greater than the King himself.

Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous.

It was so damn strange, John thought, how sometimes the most unlikely, an ugly little man like this one, could hold such power. He had a tremendous command presence, his voice sweet, rich, carrying power. So strange how some had that, could spout utter insanity and others would follow blindly.

Military commanders choose to overlook the Kenyan proverb that proclaims the power of the flea--"A flea can trouble a lion more than the lion can harm a flea." Most generals would rather be lions than fleas.

The Russian Army had always believed in the power of artillery.

A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he cannot sit on it.

A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he can't sit on it.

It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.

A politician will do anything to keep his job - even become a patriot.

You furnish the pictures and I'll furnish the war.

You can crush a man with journalism.

In 528, still the crown prince, not yet king, Khusro discovered that his father's Mazdakite allies were conspiring against the throne. Driven, perhaps, by a combination of loyalty, anger, and a desire to demonstrate a kingly sort of resolution, in 529 the prince arrested, tortured, and executed Mazdak, and followed up with a massacre of his followers. (The Mazdakites would one day serve as inspiration for Islam's dissident Shi'a.)

The hand that rocks the cradleIs the hand that rules the world.

You cannot hold back a good laugh any more than you can the tide. Both are forces of nature.

In reality, a higher level of war always trumps a lower.

Nobody owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death.

The way to kill a man or a nation is to cut off his dreams, the way the whites are taking care of the Indians: killing their dreams, their magic, their familiar spirits.

Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.