Power Quotes

"The law always limits every power it gives." "You have to be a beast. That's the only way they'll respect you" "When the pawn hits the conflicts, he thinks like a king" "The more powerful you are, the more your behavior changes the rules." "In the councils of government we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence whether sought or unsought by the military-industrial complex" "It’s a metaphor see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth but you don’t give it the power to do its killing" "Out of the ash I rise with my red hair and I eat men like air" "If you want power, at some point you will have to convince some humans to trust you" "This is the other secret that real artists know and wannabe writers don’t. When we sit down each day and do our work, power concentrates around us" "Our greatest fear is not that we will fall short, but that we will be powerful beyond measure" "The office of the sovereign, be it a monarch or an assembly, consisteth in the end for which he was entrusted with the sovereign power, namely the procuration of the safety of the people." "The relation between power and knowledge is not one of exteriority" "Power is not a means it is an end" "The human mind is capable of anything" "Power is sweet; it is a drug, the desire for which increases with a habit" "Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing." "We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them." "The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power." "Political chaos is connected with the decay of language." "Intellectuals may like to imagine themselves as people who speak truth to power, but too often they are people who speak lies to gain power"