Quotes About Power

but will you let me kiss your neck, baby? Do I have to tie your arms down?

He hits you and he hits you and he hits you. Desire driving his hands right into your body.

Willpower, gunpowder, concussive thunder. Pink, orange, red, orange dreaming red.

Will you throw me to the ground like you mean it

The machine of the world- if you don't grab on, you begin to tremble. And if you do grab on, then everything trembles.

The hand is a voice that can sing what the voice will not

The office women looked at him and shivered. They knew he was a bastard, they his big hands were born to slap with, they knew his face would never break into a smile when he looked at a woman. They knew what he was, they thanked God for their husbands, and still they shivered. Because they knew how he would fall on a woman in the night. Like a tree".

She's dead. So is your fat pansy. You can be dead, too, if you want.

Stegman looked back at him. "I don't see no gun," he said. "I don't see no weapon." Parker held up his hands. "You see two of them," he said. "They're all I need.

King Alexander, the son of Ammon and of Philip the king, also supreme king of Europe and all Asia, Egypt and Libya, to the Tyrians who are as nothing.

Churchill thought that it was 'Crazy' to give universal suffrage to 'these naked savages'. Lyttelton hoped to 'retard' constitutional development in Nigeria and cited the principle of 'divide et impera'.

Oliver Cromwell's words in dismissal of the Long Parliament: 'You have sat too long here for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go.

it is impossible to cure a political prostitute from whoring'.

The US government has often spread disinformation — for example, to justify sending Marines into Central or South American Countries to depose one government and put a more "friendly" government into power. The fact that these stories will be discredited years later is of no consequence, of course, to the fabricators of such stories. Disinformation often works. The discrediting of it is usually too late to matter. Years later, people don't seem to care.

Dictators have no peers; only sycophants to do their bidding. That is how it was in Nazi Germany. And so it is wherever autocrats rule in government or in business. Dictators and braggarts cause their own demise, because when they finally are in extremis, they have only their lackeys to call on, while their adversaries attract the best of men.

We get into fights or lust for imperial dominion over another nation for reasons of pride.

A wife who cooks badly might be beaten, shouted at, chased, or have her possessions broken, but she can respond to abuse by refusing to cook or threatening to leave. Such disputes seem to be characteristic mostly of new marriages.

Human competitiveness still has elements of the primate system of achieving status by individual combat.

The problem in both human and ape history is that political power is built on physical power - and physical power is ultimately the power of violence or its threat.

Males have evolved to possess strong appetites for power because with extraordinary power males can achieve extraordinary reproduction.

those who have political power can count on someone coming to their aid - the police or the military or the mob or the family, or the royal guard.

choice is our superhuman power. It allows us to change everything all at once,

Only the Strong know Love; only Love can fathom Beauty; only Beauty can fashion Art.

Ein politischer Mann ist widerlich, ein politisches Weib aber grauenhaft […].