Quotes About Power

Jefferson) was deeply suspicious of Hamilton's assumption plan (by which the nation would assume responsibility for the states' individual war debts.) He feared this was yet another example of the avaricious hand of the unscrupulous money powers, the sprawling, hydra-headed creature associated with banks, stock markets and devious speculators, especially in New York, Boston, and the City of London, not to mention unrepublican, unAmerican attitudes of all kinds - everything he despised.

Does the world not recognize that we are destined to be a great power?

he swept into Auschwitz in an open black Mercedes, driven by a chauffeur

Just because you're a slave to your lover in the bedroom doesn't mean you have to be a slave to him in the rest of your life.

Readers understand that the books celebrate female power. In the romance novel, the woman always wins. With courage, intelligence and gentleness she brings the most dangerous creature on the earth, the human male, to his knees.

Who the hell do you think you are, Jones? The man they sent to take care of the monsters on Rainshadow, Cyrus said.

Every man thinks God is on his side. The rich and powerful know he is.

Madame Alexandra, if you don't open the door, I'll smash all your imitation china, I'll rip up your fake Persian rugs. Let me in, or it'll cost you a damn sight more than anything I want from you.

God is on everyone's side and in the last analysis, he is on the side with plenty of money and large armies.

Poor little men, poor little cocks! As soon as they're old enough, they swell their plumage to be conquerors. If they only knew that it's enough to be just a little bit wounded and sad in order to obtain everything without fighting for it.

Propaganda is a soft weapon hold it in your hands too long, and it will move about like a snake, and strike the other way.

Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law.

Challenge, and not desire, lies at the heart of seduction.

If we consider the superiority of the human species, the size of its brain, its powers of thinking, language and organization, we can say this: were there the slightest possibility that another rival or superior species might appear, on earth or elsewhere, man would use every means at his disposal to destroy it.

In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to spare us the abjection of learning.

Politicians -- power itself -- are abject because they merely embody the profound contempt people have for their own lives. One should be grateful to the politicians for accepting the abstractness of power, and ridding others of its burden. This inevitably kills them but they get their revenge by passing onto others the corpse of power.

The combination of royal, aristocratic, and democratic power makes only a democracy.

even if our entire audiovisual legacy were to be lost in a power cut, we would still be able to read books in the light from the sun, or in the evening by a candlelight.

We should keep silent about those in power to speak well of them almost implies flattery to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.

The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his fortunes.

The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as can help in making his fortune.

Every editor of newspapers pays tribute to the devil.

The strongest passion is fear.

People who make no noise are dangerous.