Quotes About Power

The sublime feeling is not mere pleasure as taste is – it is a mixture of pleasure and pain... Confronted with objects that are too big according to their magnitude or too violent according to their power, the mind experiences its own limitations.

Desire baffles knowledge and power.

In his analysis of the sublime effect, Edmund Burke termed 'horror' the state of mind of a person whose participation in speech is threatened. The power which exceeds the capacity of interlocution resembles night.

Much slower, I turned around to see Vlad examining his fingernails, as if his hands weren't still ablaze in the flames that had blasted the ghoul's head off moments before. 'what the hell was that?' I gasped. 'Premature inflammation,' He replied. 'Happens sometimes. Very embarrassing, I don't like to talk about it.'

Thus jewelry in a woman's film means beauty, power, nobility, or evil, depending on the situation. The evil woman covets jewelry. A good woman does not really want it, just as she is not supposed to want economic power; that is why, in many films, she returns it to her man in his hour of need.

Politics is just love, sex, food, clothes, money, and correct society in a different form.

She's aware that she and her companions represent something to these men. They look like home. Or they look like salvation. Or they look like prey. To an halcón they might look like reward money.

Her hatred is a living succubus, vast enough and quick enough and wicked enough to crest up from her heart and take wing, to expand across the hundreds of miles between them, to engulf the whole city of Acapulco, to veil the room in which he's standing, to overshadow him and overcome him, to slip into his mouth and choke him from the inside out. She hates him so much she can murder him from sixteen hundred miles away, just by wishing for it.

magic that's marginally maternal, but entirely female.

The noise thunders into her bones.

The man's words have landed on her face and she does – she looks like an Aztec warrior.

She fights at every moment against the scream that pulses inside her like a living thing.

Cent éclairs par seconde frappent la surface terrestre !

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

Everything is good when it leaves the hands of the Creator; everything degenerates in the hands of man.

In the strict sense of the term, a true democracy has never existed, and never will exist.

The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms his strength into right, and obedience into duty.

He thinks like a philosopher, but governs like a king.

The right of conquest has no foundation other than the right of the strongest.

There is no subjugation so perfect as that which keeps the appearance of freedom for in that way one captures volition itself.

Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves than they.

I have never thought, for my part, that man's freedom consists in his being able to do whatever he wills, but that he should not, by any human power, be forced to do what is against his will.

All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl.

It is not the men who are in command of the bulldozers. It is the bulldozer who invented men, and then, since they failed to interest it, obliterated them with its muscular arm.