Quotes About Power

The thought is a deed. Of all deeds she fertilizes the world most.

Raising her arms, she defied Heaven. 'So,' she cried, 'you prefer your God to me? You think he is stronger than I am. You think he will love you better than I would? Ah, what a child you are! Do stop talking such twaddle. What we are going to do is go back to the garden together, and love each other, be happy and free, for that is life.

Je l'ai dit ailleurs, et je le répète ici : quand on enferme la vérité sous terre, elle s'y amasse, elle y prend une force telle d'explosion, que, le jour où elle éclate, elle fait tout sauter avec elle.

The sea with its perpetual oscillation, that obstinate swell sweeping up to the cliffs twice a day, exasperated him: it was senseless force, indifferent to his grief, wearing down the same rocks for centuries while never mourning the death of a single human being. it was too vast, too cold; and he would hurry home and shut himself indoors, to feel less insignificant, less crushed between the dual infinities of sea and sky.

Now we need something else...and I should be the one person to be reckoned with! (37)

Whenever they were together, fanfares cleared the way before them and they picked up Paris in one hand and put it calmly in their pocket. (64)

Des hommes poussaient, une armée noire, vengeresse, qui germait lentement dans les sillons, grandissant pour les récoltes du siècle futur, et dont la germination allait faire bientôt éclater la terre.

They, poor devils, were just machine-fodder, they were penned like cattle in housing estates, the big Companies were gradually dominating their whole lives, regulating slavery, threatening to enlist all the nation's workers, millions of hands to increase the wealth of a thousand idlers.

Gerçek topra??n alt?na kapat?ld??? zaman, orada öyle bir toplan?r öyle bir patlama gücü kazan?r ki, patlad??? gün her ÅŸeyi kendisiyle birlikte havaya uçurur.

war is] life itself...We must eat or be eaten so that the world might live. it is only warlike nations which have prospered: a nation dies as soon as it disarms

Mais dites-vous bien une chose: une femme vous roulera toujours quand elle voudra en prendre la peine.»

Elle était là, patiente, seule, redoutable dans sa douceur. There she was, patiently waiting, alone, formidable in her gentleness.

la machine ronflait, crachait, comme une bête qu'on surmène, avec des sursauts, des coups de reins, où l'on aurait cru entendre craquer ses membres.

Sale a relucir aquello de las tres fieras, toro, torero y público; la primera, que se deja matar porque no tiene más remedio; la segunda, que cobra por matar; la tercera, que paga para que maten, de modo que viene a resultar más feroz.

La dictadura es como una aria y nunca llega a ser ópera.

The dictatorship is like an aria that never becomes an opera.

No hay palanca más poderosa que una creencia para mover las multitudes humanas; no en vano se dice que la religión liga y aprieta a los hombres

Regent, Boris Godonof, riveted the chains of slavery upon the wrists of many millions of human beings in Russia.

Now, my bonny lad, you are mine! And we'll see if one tree won't grow as crooked as another, with the same wind to twist it!

I surveyed the weapon inquisitively. A hideous notion struck me: how powerful I should be possessing such an instrument! I took it from his hand, and touched the blade. He looked astonished at the expression my face assumed during a brief second: it was not horror, it was covetousness. He snatched the pistol back, jealously; shut the knife, and returned it to its concealment.

You forget you have a master here,'' says the tyrant. ''I'll demolish the first who puts me out of temper! I insist on perfect sobriety and silence. Oh, boy! was that you? Frances, darling, pull his hair as you go by; I heard him snap his fingers.'' 'Frances pulled his hair heartily;

He possessed the power to depart, as much as a cat possesses the power to leave a mouse half killed, or a bird half eaten.

mine. So much the worse for me that I am strong.

El tirano oprime a sus esclavos y éstos no se vuelven contra él; sino que aplastan a los que tienen debajo.