Quotes About Power

Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people.

The opinion of the strongest is always the best.

Better to rely on one powerful king than on many little princes.

Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one.

The argument of the strongest is always the best.

Le vent déracina celui de qui le ciel était voisin et dont les pieds touchaient à l'empire des mots.

Germania hitlerist? dresa ?i domina instinctele s?lbatice ale omului ?i punea în slujba ei toat? magia pe care o pot genera noaptea, t?cerea ?i fr??ia de sânge.

By becoming emperor, I would once more put myself above my state.

Toate regimurile li se par bune, în afara celor care au c?zut. ?i le plac revolu?iile când ei sunt cei care le fac.

Fusesem mult? vreme de partea celor puternici. Acum eram învin?i. A?a c?, în mod obligatoriu, în locul abilit??ii de înving?tori preferam victimele fidelit??ii.

Not to be overlooked are the four women who played crucial roles in FDR's life: his mother, Sara; Lucy Mercer, the woman he loved; Missy LeHand, the woman who loved him;

When you're in politics you've got to play the game.

The United States was a third-rate military power when World War II began. When it ended, America was the most powerful nation in history.

When warned on one occasion that the unions might become too powerful, he was quoted as replying, "Too powerful for what?" His attitude was that their power should prove an antidote for that of big business.

To exaggerate is to weaken.

Without him nothing was done, and through him everything was done, and the king trusted him more than any other.

Though it was at my heart's bidding that I chose the universe wherein I delight, I have at least the power of finding in it the many meanings I wish to find: there is a close relationship between flowers and convicts.

Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.

If man is, or is searching to be, omnipotent, I am willing to accept Chicago's gigantism; but I should like the opposite to be accepted as well: a city which would fit in the hollow of one's hand.

She went to get the revolver, which had long since been loaded by a most considerate Providence, and when she held it in her hand, weighty as a phallus in action, she realised she was big with murder, pregnant with a corpse.

Ä°yilikte bir ÅŸey yok. Güzel ve zengin olunca elbette iyi olur insan. Mesele adil olmakta. Ama bu adaletsizlikte hizmetçi ol da iyi ol bakal?m!

Fascism is theater.

Un mâle qui en baise un autre est un double mâle

My heart to my mother, my cock to the whores, my head to the hangman.