Quotes About Power

Authoritarians are frustrated authors. Frustrated authors not of books but of their own lives. They are soulless, unimaginative and nihilistic cowards afraid of their own and other peoples freedom.

We will eventually run out of natural resources but we have an unlimited supply of stupidity. We need to invent power grids that are fueled by bullshit.

mcMarxism: rich liberals using a perverted form of socialism to deliver the gullible into the claws of a corporatocracy

We only set the clocks back and forth in the arrogant belief we have some influence with almighty Time.

There as yet to be a revolution where those who served it have not eventually been eaten

With Great Power Comes Great Psychopathy

Dynamite is loyal to the one who lights the fuse.

That was the trouble with explaining with words. If you explained with gunpowder, people listened.

A politician's goal is always to manipulate public debate. I think there are some politicians with higher goals. But all of them get corrupted by power.

In short, the more inwardly defined I became, the less I needed to succeed and the less stressed I felt. The less I needed success, the easier it came. The less I had to get, the more I got. The less I needed to acquire power, the more power I realized I already had; before I realized that, I used to give my power away.

Our genes are a predisposition, but our genes are not our fate," I wrote to him. "If they were, then you'd be a victim, but you're not—you're one of the most powerful people on the planet.

Yet almost all of these techniques ultimately derive from yoga. It's a testimony to the power of these techniques that entire careers have been built around different aspects of yoga, sometimes even renamed after the person who rediscovered that practice.

Real power is ours already—when we stop giving it away. Real happiness is ours already—when we stop believing it's something we have to get from outside ourselves. Real peace is ours already—when we stop disturbing it. Real freedom is ours already—when we stop limiting ourselves.

an orange potato trolls the White House. If you didn't wake up screaming, you didn't wake up...

And royalty are immune from homicidal tendencies? Study your history, Stoker. I think you will discover that is how most of them became royal in the first place.

Everyone knows the Devil takes care of his own.

I was merely thinking that it may have been a very grave mistake to introduce you to Lady C. If the pair of you ever put your minds to it, you could probably topple governments together." I smiled as I pocketed the weapon. "One thing at a time, dear Stoker. One thing at a time.

Have you not yet learned that it is easier to pull a star down from the heavens than to bend a woman to your will?

People have died for less. I know; I was there.

Yes, but you usually aren't ... Well, I have to keep them covered or else you lose the power of speech

Plans are jokes written by men for God's amusement.

You can, and you will. Women are every bit as capable of killing as men. And you have advantages that men do not. You are all attractive young women, and your appearance means men underestimate you. You will use this to your advantage.

I would not like him to be a pawn in someone else's political gamesmanship.

Shepherdess of the Sphinxes by Leonor Fini.