Quotes About Power

We realize it is in those quiet moments that each of us has the ability to make our lives extraordinary.

What do I know of cultured ways, the gilt, the craft and the lie? I, who was born in a naked land and bred in the open sky. The subtle tongue, the sophist guile, they fail when the broadswords sing; Rush in and die, dogs—I was a man before I was a king.

By this axe I rule!

Gleaming shell of an outworn lie; fable of Right divine— You gained your crowns by heritage, but Blood was the price of mine. The throne that I won by blood and sweat , by Crom, I will not sell For promise of valleys filled with gold, or threat of the Halls of Hell!

I never saw a man fight as Conan fought. He put his back to the courtyard wall, and before they overpowered him the dead men were strewn in heaps thigh-deep about him. But at last they dragged him down, a hundred against one.

A strong man tied to a weak man… When there is trouble, the strong man's strength counts for nothing.

You're praying, they're praying, and God, oddly enough, will come down on the side of the one with the most guns and most willing to use them. God always does.

Faith was the most powerful force in the universe.

Give the agent something easy to reject, something to justify his authority - that way they won't look too closely at the rest of your things.

God didn't play games. He wasn't a co-conspirator. God either hit you hard and fast, and that was that, or he sat back and watched things spool out, laughing all the way out.

Well-liked… a dangerous quality in a leader.

A beast barely able to restrain itself carried a risk to its master.

Government isn't about religion or signs or symbols… It's about power and control.

Lamentablemente, lo que se lleva en las relaciones es tener el control. Y cuando hay control, no hay amor. Durante siglos, hombres y mujeres en realidad no se han amado. Se han manipulado los unos a los otros. Cada sexo ha hecho sentir al otro que el amor debía ganárselo.

The hurt is not enough: I long for weight and strength. To feel the earth as rough to all my length

The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

My definition of literature would be just this: words that have become deeds.

I won't have it, in poetry, that bulk counts. People say to me, 'Now settle down and do a long work, since you have shown the public that you can produce beautiful short poetry.' And their implication tells me that making two verses or a short poem does not satisfy their concept of what an accomplished poet should be able to do. Bulk they want, as evidence of a man's power.

Spare me the setting of my fate to music.

What but design of darkness to appall?— If design govern in a thing so small.

Ignorance and power and pride are a deadly mixture, you know.

Whenever life becomes Tinkertoys, the queen may be sacrificed.

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